‘Clutch’ Rodrygo | Goal.com Spain

Today in sports the story counts a lot. For example, in the United States, they love to post nicknames and spotlight their sports heroes for one reason or another. Spectacularity and drama always appear and make these stories move from coincidence to causality.

One of the qualities that stands out the most is undoubtedly showing up at key moments. Being continuously decisive and deciding competitions and championships. In the United States it is called clutch and this same year, the NBA created an award for the clutch player of the season, won by De’Aaron Fox.

At Real Madrid, no doubt, the ‘clutch’ player is Rodrygo Goes. The Brazilian has become accustomed to appearing at the most important moments of the season. When others get small, he gets bigger. He likes those kinds of scenarios. Just like Stephen Curry, one of his idols.

April and May, the months when everything is decided, are his favorite months. Last season he scored seven of his nine goals between those two months as many memorable as those scored against Chelsea and Manchester City in the Champions League or an absolutely fundamental goal against Sevilla to leave the league condemned.

So far this year he has scored 19 goals and nine of them have been in the past two months. Among them the doubles against Chelsea and Osasuna in absolutely decisive matches. Not to mention important goals like those against Cacereño and Atlético de Madrid in the cup or against Barça and Atlético in the league. In fact, he has scored a total of 37 goals with Real Madrid and 17 of those have been between April and May. Almost half. A last.

In a team like Real Madrid, which competes every year for the most important titles, it is a blessing to have a footballer who shows his best at key moments. Rodrygo has taken a giant step in his evolution as a footballer this year, but that natural talent to appear on the agreed days cannot be trained. You were born with that. AND Rodrygo has a star, that’s for sure.