The goal scored by Lucas Vazquez yesterday in the Camp Nou It is the clearest example of the value that this player has in the current discipline of the white club. It is the example of tenacity, perseverance, work. Undisputed values that led to Real Madrid to have to improve his card last summer when his contract ended and the Galician had offers on the table. The Real Madrid He did not hesitate then to make an effort despite being mired in a pandemic situation. A renewal that links the soccer player to the white entity until June 2024.
You rarely find a player who can be more profitable in the discipline of a club. Able to play where they put him. Whether as extreme midfielder, your usual position; or as a right back. Position that he has been occupying on a regular basis during this last season and a half due to the constant injuries of the owner Dani Carvajal.
Yesterday his second goal in the Camp Nou reflects the values of this Galician. It was the player himself who started the play by rejecting the ball on the edge of the white team’s area. After his pass to the race Marco Asensio, far from stopping, he continued the whole play until the end taking advantage of the rejection of Ter Stegen and the lack of speed of the Barcelona defender.
Yesterday was his first league goal against him Football Club Barcelona throughout his league career and in the ten classics played so far in the regularity competition. If he had scored another in the first leg of the semifinals of Copa del Rey of the 2018-2019 season and that ended with a 1-1 draw between whites and Catalans.
His most important goal so far was in the 2016 Champions League final penalty shootout.
This season there are already seven games he has played with him Real Madrid in the league with a total of 441 games. Three of them have played the 90 minutes and only in two did they do so while initially on the bench. To that must be added the two games he has played in the Champions League.
In a season where he also returns from the serious injury suffered in the cruciate ligament of the left knee. Injury that occurred precisely in the Classic disputed on April 11 of this year in the Valdebebas Stadium in a set with Busquets.
The good numbers of Lucas Vázquez in Madrid
Until now there was a goal that clearly marked the career of the Galician in the Real Madrid. It was the goal he scored in the penalty shootout in the final of the Champions League of 2016 before Atlético de Madrid on Milan. He took responsibility for the first throw from eleven meters. Now he already has another goal in his professional career. The one marked yesterday in the Camp Nou, his first goal in a classic league, and which ended up being key in the final victory.
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