Morten Hjulmand – Photo LiveMedia/Valentina Giannettoni
That Morten Hjulmand it was already clear that he was good in Lecce. And above all Pantaleo Corvino had intuited it even before that in 2021 he brought him to Salento from Admira Wacker for 170,000 euros. Today, however, the Danish midfielder has reached a different dimension and demonstrated it in the 34th minute of Denmark-England, when with a powerful right-footed shot from 30 meters he surprised Jordan Pickford with the help of the post to seal the temporary 1-1 goal. “No agent reported it to me, I chose it and went to get it. The boy politely asked us to go to other stages,” Corvino said last summer. Eventually Hjulmand ended up at Sporting Lisbon, where he established himself as one of the best footballers in the Portuguese league. A midfielder of substance, he can play as a midfielder in a three-man midfield or as a midfielder in a two-man unit. Vigorous in his tackles, but still qualitative in his approach, today in Frankfurt he also demonstrated that he has an important level of long-range shooting. In his last season at Lecce he finished with 35 appearances and 4 assists, with a very high performance that allowed him to end up on the radar of scouts across Europe. In the end it was Sporting who won him and he repaid the trust of the Portuguese managers, who spent almost 20 million euros on the Dane. Four goals and four assists in Portugal for Hjulmand, who in recent months has been linked to Tottenham and Barcelona. Now the market value has doubled. And in Lecce in 2021 Corvino had anticipated everyone for the umpteenth time.
