Vinicius never fails
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The situation 

“Vinicius is going to play; he is not tired “. This is how Carlo Ancelotti expressed himself in the bowels of the Red Bull Arena in Leipzig the day before Real Madrid faced Red Bull over the Brazilian striker. He was right. Vinicius arrived last season to stay. And in this one, his consolidation, he has reached a tremendous status: he never fails . Whenever his teammates have needed him, the figure of the carioca has been there. If last season he scored 22 goals and participated with 20 assists in his team’s wins in 52 games (among all competitions). In this one, the rhythm is similar: the whites have played 17 games, and Vini has participated with eight goals scored , the last one with a header (the third he has scored in that way of the 44 he has on his record so far), and six assists given, two of them in the last game against Sevilla, the second key to establishing the Madrid victory over the Sevilla team, when he gave the ball to Lucas Vázquez so that the Galician scored the second goal for the Whites. This makes him the team’s top scorer (among all competitions) and one of the top assists: he has scored goals in all three competitions in which he has participated with Madrid so far. He assisted Benzema in the European Super Cup so that the Frenchman scored the second and final goal of the game, in the League he has three more than two other key passes in the Champions League. Against Red Bull he was neither tired nor daunted: he continued to strike down his flank and scored the first goal for the Whites with an accurate header . He encouraged the Whites to try to equalize in the second half. He himself was close to achieving it in the 70th minute after a play forged between Asensio and Hazard, but his shot went wide, near the goal post defended by Blaswich. He would then score Rodrygo from a penalty to close the gap on the scoreboard. Precisely, with his compatriot of his, he formed a good couple in attack: he gave him eight balls, while he received 12 from Kroos, the one who gave him the most. He had two more chances, but it was not his night in front of goal… Even so, his figures in their last 12 Champions League games they are tremendous: five goals, four assists and participating in several key actions, such as Benzema’s second goal against PSG where he overwhelmed the rival defense before passing to Modric, who in turn gave in to Karim for him to score. Market value. All those statistics have made him grow in the stock market . Madrid paid 45 million euros to Flamengo for his transfer in 2018. 

The details

Now, according to Transfermarkt, the reference website for this type of operation, it rates him at 120 million. Since June 2021, its value has tripled: then it was valued at 40 million, but its good work has made it multiply its value by three. Now that Benzema is gone, absent with muscle fatigue, Vinicius hasn’t failed. He keeps pulling the car for and for his companions. Some gestures that have not gone unnoticed by Tite, the Brazilian coach, who hopes to join him with Neymar to form a lethal pair in the next World Cup that begins in just over three weeks.It will be their first World Cup date and in their native country they are already vibrating with the possible conquest of the title, something they have not done since 2002, when they won the five-time championship. But until the World Cup date, Vinicius only has his mind set on Madrid. He knows that his teammates need him, now even more so with Benzema out. And he will fulfill his motto: ‘Never let them down’.