Camavinga is another way

For Camavinga there does not seem to be any friendlies or formalities. He puts the same energy in a League match where there are three points at stake as in an uncomfortable Cup match that has to be solved yes or yes. Camavinga was the star of the East who tried to guide a team in which several players (Valverde, Marcelo, Rodrygo, Hazard, Asensio …) had one night to claim their claim and did not open any debate. The Frenchman’s game was one of the few, if not the only, positive notes left by the individual performance of the 14 footballers (Vallejo and Ceballos gave them time to little) who solved the problem and led Madrid to the eighth of the Cup .

Camavinga has a task ahead of him to make a place for himself in the Real Madrid eleven. By age, at 19 he still has a long way to go, and by the competition he faces in the locker room. The Holy Trinity formed by Casemiro, Modric and Kroos is untouchable and, when one of the three is missing, they must fight for the position with Valverde and now also with Ceballos. But Camavinga does not skimp on desire. The pulse with the Uruguayan seems to have won it. The two returned to an eleven that they already shared in the farewell of 2021 in San Mamés and the sensations they left were again similar: the Frenchman convincing, the Uruguayan blurred. The sky-blue international seems to have lost the overwhelming force and verticality that the last two campaigns provided. After having started in the first ten games of this season benefited by Kroos’s injury, Valverde’s presence in the eleven has been diluted as his prominence on the field when his influence on the team’s game when he has minutes.

An impetus and initiative in the participation that does show, although sometimes it goes beyond revolutions, Camavinga. In El Collao he was the most outstanding player for the Whites. Despite his youth (he is the youngest of Ancelotti’s squad), he showed personality and courage. He did not hide when asking for it, received 36 passes and distributed 41, of which 35 reached their addressee. He received three fouls (only Hazard, with five, suffered more, in a statistic that the Belgian led for the fourth consecutive game), recovered seven balls and blocked two shots from Alcoyano.

Knowing how to measure yourself is his pending subject. He saw a yellow again, the sixth of the season, although this time it was rather for an unfortunate set that due to an excess of desire, in a roulette attempt in which he found Fran Miranda’s leg, and the warning, instead of the ball. Despite being the 17th player who has spent the most minutes in this league with Madrid, he has already completed the warning cycle. He sees a card every 116.5 minutes, a drag that has forced Ancelotti to replace him prematurely in several games.