Everton vs Liverpool: James Rodriguez, decisive in his first derbies in...

The Premier returns this weekend after the national team break and James Rodriguez wants to continue as the leader of English football. After a great start to the season, the cucuteo will face the current champion of the competition and Everton’s greatest rival to continue at the top of the best league in the world. In what means a new debut in the derbies of Europe for the Colombian, we review his first classics since he first set foot on the old continent in 2010.

James arrived in Porto a decade ago from Banfield for just over five million dollars.. Although he spent three years defending the interests of the ‘Dragons’, theHe was never able to play a derby in the northern Portuguese city. Boavista, the greatest rival of the first club in the old continent was in those years between the second and third divisions product of a administrative decline related to the purchase of referees in the 2003/2004 season. In this way, James Rodríguez was never able to play the city derby.

He was alone for 12 months in the principality, where he left his mark in the first derby on the Mediterranean coast. December 3, 2013 and in the middle of his fight with Claudio Ranieri, the Italian started him at the stadium of Nice for the match that marked the first derbin the James of Europe region.

With just five minutes to go, an escape from Andrea Raggi on the left ended in a pass to a free-marking James who started a run in front of the goal defended by Vronse. With all the class that characterizes him, he defined the right post left-handed and opened the account of a derby that the Monegasques won 3-0. James participated in the play of the second and was about to score a goal from outside the area in the complement. He will leave the field in minute 79.

His arrival at the Bernabu revolutionized Colombia and in large part to the ‘merengue’ fans, who took the 2014 scorer for 80 million euros. After his debut against Sevilla for the European Super Cup, the Atltico de Madrid del ‘Cholo’ Simeone will be the rival for the Spanish Super Cup.

That day he was a substitute and entered for the second half instead of Cristiano Ronaldo. In a match that seemed to die in a draw, James caught a rebound in the area and then opened the account. All Bernabu shouted the first goal of the Colombian as a Madridista in his first derby in the capital. Minutes later, Ral Garca tied after a second play on a corner.

While it was impossible to play against TSV 1860 Mnich, James faced and played against Borussia Dortmund for ‘Der Klassiker’ during the 2017/2018 season. Ancelotti sent him into the middle with Thiago and Javi Martnez at Signal Iduana Park, where the cucuteo once again demonstrated his good streak during his first ‘derbies’.

James lowered with his chest a change of front from Thiago and enabled a Robben who did not forgive after shooting Burki. The Colombian will also have importance in the third goal, where an opening of his to Praise ended up in a center that no one touched and went to the bottomor the network. The balance, two assists to boost that Bayern in ‘Der Klassiker’.