Neither Cristiano Ronaldo, nor Messi, nor Lewandowski are the perfect Vlahovic phenomenon in the Champions League.

The Serbian striker has never played in any European competition as such, just a preliminary Europa League bid, but his break into the Champions League was impressive.

Juventus striker Dusan Vlahovic needed 33 seconds and just two touches to score his first goal on his first day in the Champions League, as the new winter signing expanded his phenomenon with a dimension of all that could possibly be the competition’s greatest planet. , in the footsteps Karim Benzema, Erling Haaland, or Thierry Henrywho also debuted as professionals in their first duel in the tournament.

“It was great to score on my debut. It was very emotional. But I can’t be 100 percent satisfied, because we didn’t win the match. We have to keep working hard. We played a good game and could have won. We didn’t. We really wanted to win this.” Tuesday and it didn’t materialize. I’m already looking forward.”The 22-year-old Serbian striker, who cost €75m, has been reduced Juventus In the January market, he secured a record explosion that has turned him into one of the most valuable emerging strikers.

Never participated in the European competition itself, only an overview European League When he was still playing party Belgrade, not to mention Champions League And in the qualifying rounds for the championship, where his impressive cut was, at the height of the greats, once he started, when Daniel He fired his unmarking while jogging, keeping a close eye on it Raoul Albiolcontrols his chest, arms his shot, turns and hits 0-1 on half of the turn with his right foot to cross to the other post, out of his reach Jiro Rowley.

In three seconds, he controlled the ball with his torso, and hit the ball into the net. “When you play against these kinds of teams and players, you can’t give them even half a chance. He scored a great goal, but that’s what happens at this level.”Supposedly Daniel Parejomidfielder Villarrealbefore goal Vlahovicwho follows in the footsteps of the greatest strikers in the history of Champions League Who scored a goal when they entered the scene.

Not Christian, not Messi, not Lewandowski

Among the top ten scorers of all time in European CupThere are four players who achieved the same thing in their first meeting in Champions: Karim Benzema, who scored his first 76 goals in his debut for Lyon at the age of seventeen, against Rosenborg, with a 2-1 win; Thierry Henry, who achieved a “double” in his first duel (Monaco 4 – Bayer Leverkusen 0) and then scored 51 goals; Thomas Muller, 19, at Bayern Munich 7 – Sporting de Lisbon 0, and Filippo Inzaghi also with Juventus.

Not even Cristiano Ronaldo, the top scorer in the Champions League (141 goals), who played 27 games to open his account; nor Lionel Messi (125), who needed five with Barcelona, ​​with whom he made his debut in the tournament at the age of 17 in the 2–0 defeat to Schakther in 2004; Nor Robert Lewandowski (82), who scored his first Champions League goal in the third match; nor Raúl Gonzalez (71), also third; nor Ruud van Nistelrooy (60), to iii; Nor Andrei Shevchenko, to second place, in 1994-95.

Erling Haaland is not among them yet, among the top ten scorers in the Champions League, but he will be. He also appeared for the first time in the Champions League with a goal. Specifically, with three in the service of Salzburg.

“Vlahovic played a very good match. It is not easy to face a defender like Albiol,” said Massimiliano Allegri, his coach. “When they pay 75 or 80 million euros for a striker in January, it is because he has something. We saw that his first goal was a goal. He is a high-level striker, young, with a great performance. The future. A great signing for Juventus”, defend Villarreal On ‘Movestar“.

The coach put him in the starting line-up Alvaro Morata. “He’s a very young boy, he played his first game and scored his first goal, so imagine the trajectory he’s been waiting for. Hopefully he can keep doing what he’s doing. Looks like he’s been here for three months already.” express toMovestar‘At the end of the international match, the Spanish striker.

Shot, 1 goal and 10.32 km

Regardless of its purpose, Vlahovic He has another chance, hold it off Rolly Already in the second half. His only two strikes came at 95 minutes and 11 seconds as the fourth-highest financial signing in Juventus history developed his style of play (after Cristiano Ronaldo, Gonzalo Higuain and Matisse de Ligt) on the grounds of La Cerámica. Both went to goal. One of them was a target.

Still at 33 seconds, the time he scored UEFANot even among the five fastest players in tournament history. The fastest, according to official statistics, still belongs to Roy McKay, on March 7, 2007, in Bayern Munich 2 – Real Madrid 1, when it only took 10.12 seconds. He is followed by Jonas, in 10.96 seconds (on November 1, 2011 in Valencia 3 – Bayer Leverkusen 1).

Then there is Gilberto Silva (20.07 seconds on September 25, 2002 in PSV Eindhoven 0 – Arsenal 4), and Alessandro Del Piero, in 20.12 seconds, in Manchester United 3 – Juventus 2 on October 1, 1997. “Like Del Piero? Legend Vlahovic said at the end of the match against Villarreal.

The “Seven” covered a distance of 10.32 kilometers during the match. Its top speed was 30.9 kilometers per hour. His fellow attackers contacted him sixteen times, four of them Daniel, his assistants at 0-1, and joined them in eleven of the thirteen passes he attempted; 85 percent accuracy, with one in two in short deliveries, nine out of nine in medium term deliveries and one in two in long passes.

He entered the game 22 times in his first match in Champions LeagueWho has already felt this phenomenon Vlahovicwith his 22nd goal this season and his 54th goal in his career, not including his time in the lower categories on Fiorentina.

The striker collects this amount during the 140 matches he played between Partizan, Fiorentina and Juventus (he adds five with his new team, with two goals), but his scoring appearance as it now appears is modern: 38 of those goals are concentrated in the last 50 official matches. It’s an average of a goal every 1.3 games. Prior to those 50 accidents, it was one in 5.62. Vlahovich was released. And the