The West Brom winger has made some impressive appearances since joining Albion on loan – but he is yet to start a game.
Carlos Corberan has detailed why Jeremy Sarmiento is still waiting for his first game at West Bromwich Albion since arriving on loan from Brighton in the summer.
The winger has excited supporters during his league appearances and even scored his first first-team goal, in the recent 4-2 win over Middlesbrough at the Hawthorns.
Competition for positions is already quite fierce in this 3-4-3 system; Corberan now use Matt Phillips as a winger, while John Swift has won a place and confidence is held in Corberan’s new captain, Jed Wallace, who has so far struggled to regain his position.
producing the form he enjoyed at this point last season.
With Grady Diangana also returning to action after seven months out through injury, Corberan has plenty of options when choosing his team.
However, for Sarmiento, he will continue to be treated relatively cautiously after 2023 with very limited minutes at his parent club, followed by a serious injury in March that ended his season.
finish early.
“Jérémy is another player who didn’t play several minutes in a row before coming to us,” assessed Corberan.
“One is because he was on the bench against Brighton without playing, and he only started twice, in cup matches, but in normal matches, he was only used from the 80th minute of the match.
fight.
“From January to March this year, he only played a few minutes in some matches from the bench.
Since March, he suffered an injury that prevented him from playing.
This injury has been processed and was processed again this summer, which is why he I couldn’t have a normal pre-season.
Then Brighton transferred him here.
“You have a player who is not used to playing for a year.
Josh Maja has a habit of playing every game from last season.
In Jeremy, you lack habit, and that’s why he is here.
When a If a Premier League club lends you a player, you must carry out some level of preparation with that player.
If he was perfect now he would play in the Premier League, but there are things we need to improve.
“The good news is that Jeremy’s mentality is great.
He is highly determined to become an important player and achieve the position he wants.
Before the international break, I had a goal: not to lose to Jeremy in practice or in matches.
” A player who didn’t play much last year and then gets injured for four months, you’re not going to change that quickly.
“If you rush this process, you will lose the player you want.
At the same time, he is not ready to do more.
However, he needs to get into the habit of playing more minutes.
How to get into the habit?
That’s the challenge.
Play play play play without worrying about whether you play or not?
Performance affects results and here we need results.
Therefore, Jérémie must achieve this during training.“
Corberan understood the desire for Sarmiento to start, but explained that – despite having more minutes left – his style of play tends to be quite tiring.
This was evident when his team played an inter-club friendly at The Hawthorns during the international break and Sarmiento tired midway through the match.
Corberan explained: “A week before Huddersfield I said I had seen an improvement in his performance levels in training.
“The game we played before the weekend, we played three 30 minutes and he got hurt in the middle of the 30 minutes, but we achieved our goal of finishing that off.
We have taken an important step – psychological and physical.
“The way Jeremy plays football requires him to expend a certain level of energy, which others don’t have.
If you analyze Jeremy’s actions, every action involves a lot of contact with the ball, a lot of movement with the opponent and a lot of it.
dribbling.
Someone told me the other day that he is the player who performs the most dribbles in the entire league.
If you look at the minutes, say how in these minutes can he become a player capable of dribbling at this level?
“Jérémy expends a lot of energy in each action, because he does a lot in one action.
What happens is that this also comes at a cost – the player’s fatigue increases.
To maintain his normal activities, he has to adapt.
Every action cannot be the last action, otherwise you will not be able to compete according to the minutes.
You can take offensive actions, but then you are not ready to defend yourself.
This is a transition we must make.
“I understand that only I and my staff know that.
Football people don’t buy tickets to know that, but if you ask me to explain it, I have to give it to you.