The absence of Vinicius in the team as a result of suspension has given fellow countryman Rodrygo the opportunity to shine on the left wing.
After the comfortable Champions League victory of Real Madrid on Brest, Rodrygo goes to the section where 700 fans of the Laliga Giants were housed in Stade de Roudourou in Guingamp after making the trip to North France. In addition to his teammates, the Brazilian thanked the supporters before entering the modest dressing room of the stadium.
The impressive Champions League statistics from Brazilian
For the second consecutive Champions League match, the Brazilian had just scored a brace, which brought his total into the competition on 24 goals in 58 performances (37 Starts), an average of 0.625 goals per match.
The 24-year-old also delivered 11 assists, resulting in 36 target contributions in those 58 competitions. Despite back-to-back Beugels, Rodrygo did not award the MVP Award from UEFA in one of the last two UCL matches against Salzburg or Brest.
In just one week the attacker scored half of the goals of Real Madrid against Salzburg and Brest (four of the eight), with the last three while playing on the left wing. Looking back, Karim Benzema was in 2022, with hat tricks against Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain.
Rodrygo gets up in the absence of Vinicius
Rodrygo has made full use of the absence of Vinicius as a result of suspensions in both La Liga and the Champions League. The young person of the two Brazilians kept his head down, dressed his teeth and stepped up to lead his team.
In addition to teammates such as Bellingham and Mbappé, Real Madrid's number 11 recently delivered fantastic versions. In his last 11 games in all competitions, he contributed to 14 goals (10 goals and 4 assists), in which he corresponds his output to the previous 46 games (also 10 goals and 4 assists).
Rodrygo 11 of the 12 individual duels won against Brest, had a fitting accuracy of 92% (46 out of 50), completed all six dribbles he tried (his best dribbling performance for Real Madrid in every match ever), offered two important passes, and Even won four of the five tackles.
The attacker ended the match with two goals, but almost had a hat trick, after a Maradona-like run, who would have been his second in the Champions League after scoring three times during his debut in the Bernabéu against Galatasaray in 2019.
Vinicius Jr's place in Real Madrid under threat
His excellent shape and hunger for goals have created a selection filemma for Carlo Ancelotti: will he start Vinicius on the left, or have done the recent versions of Rodrygo in that position to stay there to stay there? In theory it is a nice problem for the Italian to have.
Original article written by Agustín Martín, translated with the help of AI and edited by Roddy Cons.
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