Vinicius and Rodrygo achieve something for first time since Raul and Guti

Two players from Madrid and products of the Real youth system who spent their whole career at 'Los Blancos'. Two Brazilians that are exceptional talents- the reason that Madrid signed them. As of 25th September 2019, they all have something in common- scoring under the age of 20.

A lot was spoken about them after the win against Osasuna., but that stat has gone unnoticed. In fact, some might say forgotten. It's been a long time since 12th May 1996, when Raul and Guti scored against Valladolid as teenagers. A game which had a sad ending for the historic Miquel Soler.

The manager of Real Madrid Castilla was 18 then, and one year older than Raul, who is also a manager but unemployed. That was another era, with a tighter policy on signing foreigners, but which made Madrid even more ferocious.

Chendo, Fernando Hierro, Fernando Sanz, Sanchís, Quique Sánchez Flores. That team oozed Madrdism. Even Luis Enrique before he signed for Barcelona.

12 minutes from the end, the score was 0-0. Then Lasa, with the help of the goalkeeper César, who would then go on to have a lustrous career with Real, scored to make it 1-0. From the 80 to the 84th minute, the attackers' show arrived. Raul scored a header, ending a move that started with Quique: he passed to Milla and crossed beautifully for Raul just inside the area.

They had to wait almost 25 years for that to happen again. But that's not the only coincidence. It was Rodrygo's first goal, as it was for Guti in that match.

This was the last time it happened. With games played at the Bernabeu, like what happened on Wednesday, ProFootball has found that the last time two players younger than 20 scored in the same match was a 4-0 win against Sevilla on 2nd December 1995. An 18-year-old Raul scored twice, with the 19-year-old Alvaro Benito getting the other (Alkorta opened the scoring).

 

26 September 2019

The difference to what happened with Vinicius and Rodrygo was that they never played at the same time against Osasuna. In fact, the ex Santos player substituted the ex Flamengo player and socred just after he came on. it would be strange to see this happen again since Zidane rotated the team.