You not only have to mark, but know how to do it at the most necessary moment.
Not all goals have the same assessment.
Those that serve to unblock the parties are the most valuable and in that ranking, those signed by
Casemiro
occupy stellar positions.
The versatile midfielder opens a gap like no other.
In the resurrection of Saturday against Alavés, he was the one who inaugurated the succulent rental of goals.
In the League he has four goals, and all of them served to open the can.
As in Mendizorroza it happened in the victory of Real Madrid against Atlético de Madrid (2-0), against Granada (2-0) and in the first leg against Alavés, although here the team lost (1-2).
With that goal poker, he is already the team's second top scorer, only surpassed by
Benzema
(10).
In his journey as a Real Madrid player, which started in the 2012-13 campaign, he has scored 28 times (21 in the League) and in 11 of them he opened the scoreboard.
Zidane greatly values his contributions in set pieces strategy plays and arrivals from the second row.
His
header
is powerful and effective, as confirmed against Alavés or in the Madrid derby played in Valdebebas.
It boasts goals of many carats, such as the one that marked the 2-1 with which Real Madrid beat Juventus in the final of the Cardiff Champions League in 2017, or in the current campaign, with the agonizing draw against
Borussia at Moenchengladbach
, which avoided a defeat and probably elimination from the Champions League.
«Goals are usually scored by the players up front.
My job is different, although I like to do them.
Zinedine tells me to go up on more occasions, ”acknowledged the player, who will be 29 years old on 23 February.
His
most fruitful season
as a scorer was 2017-18, with seven, a figure that may possibly exceed in the current season: four in the League and one in the Champions League.
TACTICAL INTELLIGENCE
The influence of the Brazilian international in the group is superlative, not only in his work as a lifeguard on the pitch, always covering gaps and leading the list of intercepted balls (95, with an average of 5.9 per game), but also as animator of the staff.
Don't shirk responsibility at critical moments to recognize mistakes.
"We have lacked attitude", has stressed on numerous occasions when the image was not appropriate.
Zidane and many other coaches, like
Simeone
, highlight their tactical intelligence.
Despite being the stopper in the center of the field, he does not receive excessive cautions.
In Real Madrid they have shown him 31 yellows (seven this season) and he has only seen one red (like
Messi
in Barcelona), on May 10, 2019 in the new Zorrilla de Valladolid, for two yellows.
He is not a captain, but he exercises as if he were.
On Saturday he raised his voice to warn that against Alavés he took the right path: “It was a difficult game, a rival who
knows what he is playing at
and who has scored points in his field against great teams.
We had important casualties, but we have shown, once again, that we can and that this is the spirit with which we have to face the League ».
Casemiro, who has a contract until 2023, acknowledged that the latest results were not good and added: «We show that we are here and that we are going to fight until the end of the League.
We played a very complete game from minute 1 to 90. We must congratulate everyone and think about the next match.
If there has been a complete meeting this season, this is it.
The key has been that we have understood the game well and we have always been focused.
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