Brazil World Cup news: 'Nobody knows the level he can reach' — Carlo Ancelotti full of praise for Rayan

Carlo Ancelotti was afloat of praise for Rayan aft the teen produced a implicit and mature show successful Brazil's commanding 3-0 triumph implicit Scotland connected Wednesday, arsenic the Bournemouth guardant made World Cup past successful the process.

Having entered cautiously arsenic a substitute successful the triumph implicit Haiti — aft Raphinha was forced disconnected with the hamstring wounded that has since ended his tourney — the 19-year-old seized his accidental to commencement and was 1 of the Selecao's standout performers astatine the Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami.

'He did a implicit job,' Ancelotti told reporters afterwards. 'Offensive and defensive. I americium satisfied with the crippled helium played. He is young, helium has maturity and helium works hard. Nobody knows the level helium tin reach.'

In becoming the archetypal teen to commencement a World Cup lucifer for Brazil since Marco Antonio lined up astatine left-back for the quarter-final against Peru successful 1970, Rayan showed nary motion of the juncture overwhelming him.

Rayan's relation successful Brazil's goals

His power connected the crippled was felt throughout, and straight contributed to the archetypal 2 goals.

For the opener, his pressing of Scott McKenna forced an mistake — the shot fell kindly to Vinicius Junior, who rounded goalkeeper Angus Gunn to people his 2nd extremity of the tournament.

The 2nd extremity began with different of Rayan's purposeful forays, arsenic a operation with Bruno Guimaraes ended with the youngster being dispossessed wrong the area, but Matheus Cunha recovered possession, Danilo won a duel and Guimaraes recovered Vinicius Junior for his 2nd of the night.

His lone blemish of the evening came successful first-half stoppage time, erstwhile Lucas Paqueta released him and helium skipped past Andy Robertson to find himself cleanable done connected extremity — lone to sprout consecutive astatine Gunn.

Why Rayan was picked up of Luiz Henrique

With Raphinha sidelined, Ancelotti faced a prime betwixt Luiz Henrique — who had the stronger tally of signifier implicit the months starring into the tourney — and Rayan, whose performances for Bournemouth successful the Premier League had been thing abbreviated of sensational successful a abbreviated abstraction of time.

The show against Scotland illustrated wherefore the brag went with the younger option.

Rayan's quality to harvester with teammates and willingness to marque runs into the punishment country made him the amended acceptable for a strategy successful which Cunha drops deeper to make space, allowing some Vinicius Junior and the right-sided guardant to run person to goal.

A meteoric emergence from Vasco da Gama to Brazil's World Cup squad

Rayan's determination from Vasco da Gama to Bournemouth successful January was met with scepticism successful immoderate quarters, but the transportation proved inspired. With Antoine Semenyo having departed for Manchester City, Rayan arrived astatine Vitality Stadium with ample accidental to play regularly and make quickly.

He did not discarded it — 5 goals and 2 assists successful 15 appearances contributed straight to Bournemouth's archetypal ever European qualification, earning him a call-up to the last Brazil World Cup squad adjacent arsenic the radical appeared settled.

His instauration had already made an impression. In a March affable against Croatia, helium and Endrick combined to origin problems successful the closing stages, and Rayan came adjacent to a archetypal Brazil extremity lone for a good Dominik Livakovic prevention to contradict him.

He would not person to hold agelong — helium scored successful the 6-2 farewell triumph implicit Panama successful precocious May, the Selecao's last lucifer connected location ungraded earlier departing for North America.

Against Scotland, connected the grandest signifier of all, helium showed precisely wherefore that religion was good placed.