Brazilian players have always had several distinct labels: talented, young and famous, and quickly declining. Even players as strong as Adriano, Ronaldinho, Robinho and others cannot escape this law, and Neymar's career, due to injury problems, has not achieved the results he deserves so far. Lucas, who plays for Tottenham, has also become such a type of player.
Lucas Jr. is also a young player, and in 2011, at the age of 18, Lucas Jr. helped Brazil Under-20 win the South American Youth Championship and won the title of best player. In 2012, he contributed 16 goals and 10 assists to lead São Paulo to the South American Club Cup, and also won the Olympic silver medal with Brazil, and after joining Paris in 2013, he won the Confederations Cup with Brazil.
As a Brazilian player, Lucas Jr. has been excellent in speed, technique and creativity, scoring 5 goals and 17 assists for Paris in the 13-14 season, and scoring assists in the French Super Cup and League Cup finals that season. For the next three seasons, Lucas Junior occupied the position of Paris' main winger and won four consecutive league titles for Paris. However, after the arrival of Neymar and Kylian Mbappe, Lucas Jr., who was affected by injury, was gradually replaced as the main player, and he only got 6 appearances in the first half of the 17-18 season. In the summer of 2017, Lucas Junior joined Tottenham for 28 million euros.
Arriving at Tottenham Hotspur and Son Heung-min, Kane formed a new forward combination, and Lucas Junior also played at the level of some key games, including scoring twice at Old Trafford and scoring a winning goal in the Champions League group stage, allowing Tottenham to beat Inter to qualify. Of course, the most memorable thing for fans was the Champions League semi-final in the 18-19 season, when Spurs trailed by two goals at one point, Lucas Junior scored the killer goal in injury time to help Tottenham reach the Champions League final for the first time in history. Unfortunately, in the final final, Pochettino still trusted Kane, who had just returned from injury, rather than Lucas Junior, and allowed Tottenham to miss out on the title.
In the following three seasons, although Lucas Jr. was not an absolute workhorse, he was able to make many achievements after coming off the bench, and was Tottenham's third firepower output point after Kane and Son Heung-min. However, Lucas Junior has suffered serious injuries this season, making just 16 appearances this season, and in this round of the Premier League, he was sent off with a straight red card for stepping on Michael Keane after five minutes off the bench. Considering that it was a malicious stampede, he is likely to face three more suspensions later. From the statistics, you can see how bad Lucas Jr. has been this season, with 12 Premier League appearances, a total of 119 minutes, 0 goals, 0 assists and 1 red card.
Lucas Jr. is now worth only 9 million euros, because the contract is about to expire, it has been confirmed that he will leave Tottenham at the end of the season, and he is only 30 years old now, originally this is the peak of a player's career, Lucas Jr. can not escape the law of "aging first". As injuries begin to increase, there is still a question mark over whether Lucas Jr. can stay in the big five leagues.