Rodrygo and Vinicius Appeared Great in Eden Hazard’s Position, Left Wing Attacker

DBasia.news –  Two Brazilian players, Rodrygo and Vinicius Junior, brought Real Madrid to a 2-0 victory over Osasuna in Week six of the LaLiga, Thursday (9/26), at the Santiago Bernabeu.

Both scored, Vinicius in the 36^th minute and Rodrygo in the 72^nd minute. Especially for Rodrygo, the goal was even more special as it was created in a competitive debut match with El Real since moving from Santos. The 18-year-old striker also has two special notes.

First, Rodrygo became the first player born in the 21st century to score for Madrid. Rodrygo was born in Osasco, Sao Paulo, on January 9, 2001. Then the second, Rodrygo became the second fastest player of Real Madrid to score the first LaLiga.

Entering in the second round replacing his compatriot, Vinicius,it only took Rodrygo 93 seconds to score. The record was only lost to Madrid legend who also came from Brazil, Ronaldo, in 2002 with a record of 62 seconds.

Zinedine Zidane, Madrid coach, is thrilled to see the performance of the two players. Now he has many options to play on the front lines of Madrid.

“I think he (Zidane) is very thrilled. He knows he can count on all of his players for the whole season,” Rodrygo said of Zidane, as quoted by Marca.

Both processes of the goals were different. Vinicius unleashed a long-range shot that Ruben, Osasuna goalkeeper, was unable to push. Then Rodrygo dribbled the ball from the right side of Osasuna’s defense, pushed in and fired into the left side of the goal.

As additional information, Vinicius and Rodrygo played in the same position: wing attackers. Both of their good performances could certainly be a warning to Eden Hazard.

Eden Hazard has yet to make a contribution

Purchased at a high price from Chelsea for 100 million euros, plus given the sacred number 7, naturally the public expects a great deal to Eden Hazard. But so far, Hazard has not been able to make such a large contribution when strengthening the Blues.

Hazard has played two games with Real Madrid in all competitions, he has yet to scorw or provide assists. While Rodrygo from one match has scored one goal, then Vinicius one goal and one assist from five appearances.

The struggle for the position of Madrid’s left wing attackers is indeed tight and currently there is Rodrygo who also took it. Studying from the statistics on Whoscored, Rodrygo recorded an average of two kicks per match and the percentage of successful passes as much as 87.5 percent – this is only from one match.

While Hazard releases 1.5 kicks per game and the percentage of successful passes is 87 percent. Plus Vinicius with 1.4 kicks per match and a percentage of 79.3 percent in successful passes (out of five matches).

Hazard was reserved by Zidane when he fought Osasuna. He saw first hand how his position was threatened through the glory of Rodrygo and Vinicius. No doubt if Hazard does not increase his level of play, then Zidane will prefer Rodrygo or Vinicius to be Madrid’s left winger.