“Camavinga has everything to succeed in Madrid. He does not feel pressure, his character is like that. He always laughs, jokes … It is the freshness of youth.” That is how Ancelotti defined to the ex of Rennes after his stellar irruption in Madrid when he was only 18 years old, with a goal included against Celta in his debut. Now, the Italian coach also knows that youth not only gives freshness, but also an excessive impetus if you do not know how to manage. Against Osasuna it was the second time that the young midfielder, who may have the desire to triumph (at least, to precipitate as much as possible the transition to a Madrid of the future with a new core), so much so that he fails to lower the revolutions when he plays .
Camavinga felt yesterday’s game as a great opportunity to sow doubts in the idea that already seems firm in Ancelotti: a 4-3-3 with the usual trivote, Casemiro, Modric and Kroos, as starters. With them three, Madrid had taken flight with their defeat of Shakhtar in Kiev and the victory at the Camp Nou. Camavinga will have to keep waiting …
In the first 45 minutes, the Frenchman was in all of them, in the good and in the bad. Up to three shots, one of them with the head. But the excess of fieryness had already made him look yellow in the 28th minute for a hard tackle to Torró. Only three minutes later Camavinga played the second for another inning at the wrong time, while slipping on the grass, this time to Rubén García. Undoubtedly, a tic acquired in the French league, the excessive harshness with which footballers are used, which has brought Neymar so head over the years. Camavinga is the second player in the five major leagues who sees the most cards, one every 60 minutes (there are already four in the league), only surpassed by the athletic Matheus Cunha, who sees them every 56 minutes (he, only two).
Ancelotti was forced to change Camavinga at half-time, as happened against Espanyol due to the same circumstance. “The game is not going to end like this …”, it was read on the coach’s lips that, however, ended up dispensing with the average in the final stretch, with a 4-2-4 (sustained by Casemiro and Kroos) that was not enough to undo the tie with which the match began, third trip in a row at the Bernabéu (after the draw against Villarreal and the defeat against the Sheriff).