Real Madrid, who is still looking for reassurance, moves on the lawn of Viktoria Plzen for the fourth day of the Champions League. With Vinicius Jr, the young nugget from Madrid, the Merengue hope to get back on track. Follow the meeting live.
The young Brazilian winger Vinicius (18), author of a thunderous irruption in the Real Madrid team, has "more than exceptional qualities , " said Tuesday his coach Santiago Solari, saying the striker raises the issue. merengue audience enthusiasm because its game "conveys joy".
"He is a very fresh player, very young, and of course he has more than exceptional qualities for his age, it is very difficult to compare him to other players of his age." His football conveys joy " Solari told a press conference before facing Wednesday's Plzen in the Champions League.
The promising striker, trained in the Brazilian club Flamengo and arrived at Real this summer in exchange for 45 million euros according to the press, had not really had the opportunity to be under the brief mandate of Julen Lopetegui.
But Vinicius, hitherto confined to the reserve team, has impressed observers since the appointment of Santiago Solari as interim coach: he celebrated his first tenure with the first team last week against Melilla (D3) in the World Cup. King (4-0), delivering a decisive and striking pass on the crossbar.
The young striker then chained against Valladolid (2-0) Saturday in the Championship of Spain. Entered at the end of the match, Vinicius scored his first goal in the Real jersey with a deflected shot by a defender. "We all love football when a player emerges and shows different things , " said Solari on Tuesday, without specifying whether Vinicius could become a fixed holder at Real despite his youth.
"When it is inevitable that a player plays, and he starts to break everything, he ends up playing," said the Argentine. "This talent, nothing stops him, but he has to develop little by little. (Vinicius) has things to learn, he is 18 years old, but there are things he knows how to do and who can not 'learn' , concluded Solari.
Real Madrid, three-time champion of the Champions League, hopes to get closer to qualifying for the eighth Wednesday in Plzen and confirm its recent jump after the replacement of Lopetegui by Solari last week.