The Clásico elevates Vinicius

The Real Madrid won by the minimum in the Camp Nou to sign up your room Classic consecutive making use of his most pragmatic version and supported especially by his superiority in the areas, territory where Barça paid dearly for some large errors that ended up condemning him.

Sustained by the great level offered by Alaba and Militao on the defense axis, the Real Madrid threatened his rival to counterattack from speed, overflow and imbalance of Vinicius Jr. The Brazilian player was a nightmare for Barcelona’s rearguard in the first half already Ronald Koeman He had no choice but to rectify at halftime.

(+) Vinicius’s game at the Camp Nou

The 20 of Madrid deployed in the Camp Nou his repertoire of dribbling and changes of rhythm and his attempts led the Barça defenders head first, forced to brake to the extreme with a foul up to six times. No one got more in the Classic. In addition, according to data from Opta, Vinicius he had a 44% dribbling effectiveness – he completed four of the nine he tested.

More muted after the break, in the first half Vinicius was Madrid’s most incisive striker since Benzema did not score at a good level because he was well guarded by Eric and Piqué and Rodrygo he was quite isolated on the right wing, more eager to lend a hand to Lucas in defense than to deploy in attack.

The former Flamengo player, in addition, was vital to give continuity to the counterattack that led to Alaba’s 0-1 and in the second half he had in his boots to kill the game but Dest ate his toast when he was already licking his hand in hand with Ter Stegen.

Grown up on the big stages Vinicius showed his personality in a Camp Nou who already has him in his sights. Nobody was more booed than him by the Barça fans and also drove veterans like Jordi Alba and Gerard Piqué mad, with whom he had his pluses and minuses in some sets of the game.

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