Rodrygo Goes has drawn first blood for Real Madrid in their crunch derby clash away at Atletico Madrid.
Los Blancos make the short trip across the Spanish capital to face their arch rivals on the back of an impressive 100% winning record since the start of 2022/23 in domestic and European action.
As expected, both sides have started in powerful fashion at the Estadio Metropolitano, with Felipe Monteiro nodding the hosts best early chance over the bar.
However, despite finding themselves trailing in the early possession statistics, Real Madrid showed a ruthless edge on 17 minutes.
Aurelien Tchouameni’s brilliant lofted pass was not cleared by the Atletico back line and Brazilian star Rodrygo stole in behind to smash the visitors in front.
And Real Madrid are dancing! 🔥
Rodrygo fires Real Madrid in front in El Derbi ⚪ pic.twitter.com/ntFZJj51jm
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Rodrygo was immediately joined in the his celebrations by La Selecao teammate Vinicius Junior with the pair sending firm message in response to racist abuse suffered by the former in recent days.
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Rodrygo: three starts, three goals.
Love the confused journalists that somehow are trying to put him in same drawer as Hazard “Neither Hazard nor Rodrygo have convinced as Benz replacements”.
To those people: watch some football. Maybe a trip to local clue dealer would be in order.
Of course neither one can actually literally REPLACE Benzema. But Rodrygo has been excellent, playing in a position that isnt his natural and putting up numbers. He has, in those three starts, scored as many goals as Hazard has in his 3,5 years. Dont you dare compare those players, even as a joke.
Scored half as many goals as Hazard has in his 3,5 years*
Edit option would be nice suggestion to this forum…