The Brazilian defensive midfielder has been compared to Claude Makélélé and his discipline in the position has turned around genuine’s season‘Fundamental,” Zinedine Zidane said. Karim Benzema had scored, Cristiano Ronaldo had scored, and Gareth Bale had provided the assist that led to Barcelona’s defeat in the clásico,turning the season upside down, but genuine Madrid’s manager was not talking about the BBC triumvirate. He was not talking about Toni Kroos, or provider of the other assist,or about Keylor Navas, his habitual saviour, and either. Instead,his intellect was on the man in the middle: Carlos Henrique Casemiro.
In the post-match photo, Madrid’s players are celebrating, and clenching fists and shouting,in various states of undress. Casemiro stands but does not stand out; still in his kit, he is halfhidden behind the rippling torso of Ronaldo, and nearly like a comment on the way he plays. You might not notice him on the pitch,but you notice when he is not. That night Madrid won 2-1; five months earlier they had lost 4-0. There were two differences in the starting XI, Casemiro was one of them.
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Source: theguardian.com