Actual Madrid received the La Liga and the UEFA Champions League double final season, and fairly expectingly, there weren’t numerous new additions to the Merengue squad within the final summer time switch window.
Nonetheless, Carlo Ancelotti nonetheless obtained a world-class reinforcement within the type of , who lastly joined Los Blancos after having been linked with them for a number of years.
Whereas Mbappe took a lot of the limelight in the summertime, there was one other extremely promising arrival on the white membership, i.e., the younger Brazilian striker Endrick. The 18-year-old striker had been impressing in his native nation for greater than a 12 months, and the Merengues have been fast to pounce on him as they paid €47.5 million for him in December 2022.
He lastly joined the Spanish champions final summer time, after having turned 18 years of age, and there have been numerous expectations set on him by the Actual Madrid followers, particularly maintaining in view his performances with Palmeiras and the Brazilian nationwide workforce.
Nonetheless, the primary half of the 2024-25 season has been something however straightforward for the younger striker, as Carlo Ancelotti has been fairly reluctant to provide him many alternatives to shine on the pitch.
This was notably the case because the Merengues underwent a sort of disaster after their defeats to Barcelona and AC Milan. Equally, Los Blancos haven’t had numerous margin for error in both La Liga or the UEFA Champions League.
Within the former competitors, Blaugranes below Hansi Flick operating away with the title. They’ve misplaced steam in the previous few weeks, however in that point, Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid have picked up tempo, and are actually competing with the 2 massive Spanish groups for the management of the La Liga desk.
Equally, Actual Madrid have been preventing for survival within the UCL, and can’t afford to drop any extra factors within the final two video games of the League Section.
In such circumstances, Ancelotti has relied totally on his extra trusted gamers, and regardless of the accidents and bodily issues of Vinicius, Rodrygo, and Mbappe, Endrick has not had many minutes to play on the pitch.
In complete, he has performed 12 video games in La Liga, however these 12 appearances have totalled solely 123 minutes on the pitch, averaging solely 10 minutes in each recreation. The case is comparable in UCL, the place he has performed 3 video games, together with 1 begin, and totalling 78 minutes on the pitch. On this competitors, his common time in every match goes as much as 26 minutes.
The Brazilian has scored a objective in each of those competitions, however aside from that, he has probably not been capable of present his abilities on the pitch. In response to statistics, he has missed 2 massive probabilities in La Liga, the place his scoring common comes as much as be solely 10%, as he takes 0.8 photographs on common in every recreation, 0.3 of which land on objective, however he has truly scored just one objective.
His restricted time on the pitch has additionally saved him from showcasing his passing abilities, as he averages solely 2 correct passes in each recreation and a 40% dribbling success fee.
Hopefully, he’ll get extra probabilities to impress because the second half of the season kicks off, and Actual Madrid begin their Copa del Rey and Spanish Tremendous Cup campaigns, together with the already underway La Liga and UCL campaigns.
This primary half of the season has been removed from straightforward for him, however hopefully, Ancelotti will be capable to get him in higher kind, as there is no such thing as a doubt that he can come in useful in conditions when Actual Madrid want an additional attacking menace.