• Football: Madrid's debut at Di Stéfano: mourning, swallows and cleats at grass level

The nobility does not quarantine, at least that of soccer, which returns as if the world had not stopped, with the precision of Kroos , whose hitting the ball is as subtle as the ignition of a Porsche ; Sergio Ramos' start of bullfights , both with a First Communion hairstyle and a 'hipster' beard, and the indecipherable anarchy that Marcelo only abandons to put his knee on the ground, the new 'black power' of the fight against racism . Everything fits in this Madrid that returns to the League far from its stadium, in Valdebebas , because it designs an ad hoc Bernabéu for the aristocracy of the future.

The evil of the nobility is laziness , because heraldry is supposed to be anything but victory. Madrid returns to the League with victory against Eibar , but it should not be forgotten that they abandoned it with defeat, against Betis , and that now they need to correct the difference with Barcelona in the fight for a title that will be resolved in five weeks. It is a League that continues but also a different League due to the sum of new circumstances, as if it were a 'closing tournament' of those played in Latin America.

Eibar did many things well, but they initially went unnoticed against a decisive individual Madrid , since three minutes later he went ahead through Kroos and after half an hour he already had a three-goal advantage, and was committed to collective. The relaxation and tiredness of others, on the other hand, gave spaces to the Basque team to enter the game in the second half, thanks to the rebound goal by Pedro Bigas.

The new staging , however, speaks well of Zidane's work in this time of absence. On the return, he turned away from experiments to put Madrid with his own names on the pitch, except for the inclusion of Rodrygo , a player who offers less attack threat than Bale or Vinicius , because he does not even have the 'kryptonite' of the first, nor the 'swing' of the second, but tactically more applied. Beside him and Benzema , Hazard appeared , participating in the actions of the goals and with a good tone. Like Asensio , the interruption by the pandemic has given him an opportunity that he believed was lost.

When, with a substantial advantage on the scoreboard, Zidane decided to take breaks, at the start of the first half, Bale and Vinicius were the relays. It is evident that the five changes allowed in this strange summer of soccer give advantage to the teams that have more closet depth. Some, like Quique Setién , maintain the opposite. Let Mendilibar be asked.

The Eibar coach is like an oracle that often reminds us of some of the frivolities of football. A necessary type. As a coach, you have a clear plan, which is that of a pressing, compact, aggressive team in disputes and that unfolds with quick transitions and two-touch play. He takes the pressure to the rival's field , something that gives him good results against teams in his segment, but compared to the quality of the greats it is like living on the wire, because after an error you can only cross yourself. No one strikes back like the most talented, capable of doing the same things faster than the rest.

Accuracy is a matter for Kroos, as he demonstrated in the first goal, turning a watermelon into a ball, directing a rejection of the gun defense to an unreachable place for Dmitrovic . But it is Madrid's second goal that really explains the above. It started with a powerful departure from Ramos in the media that connected with Benzema. The Frenchman gave his classic dance steps in front of the defense and opened for the arrival of Hazard , who instead of trying the goal, wrapped it in wrapping paper for Ramos. Deserved. The Belgian wanted the award later, but his shot was rejected by Dmitrovic and this time it was Marcelo who took advantage of the continuity of the action to reach the net.

The leading role of these three heavyweights in goals does not detract from that of others, such as Modric or Courtois himself , with little work but very certain. When he throws himself with open arms, something he did before an Expósito launch is like a condor. Going to the break with such an advantage, however, caused Madrid to think more about what remains of the championship, which will be tough, than what was left of the game. It has risks, true, but it also makes sense, because there is as much fear of injury as of losing . Or more. The league that remains is going to be different in many things, not only because of the five changes, which exhausted both teams, or the breaks to hydrate, which seem like basketball downtime. That new football , however, begins with the same nobles. We will see how and how many ends.

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