With serious things, one should not abuse metaphors, but the truth is that Madrid is there for someone to decree the state of alarm, after two disastrous but different acts due to the opportunity and the seriousness.
The first, against Cádiz, fits among the ridiculous lapses of the greats in the League.
Everyone coughs sometime.
The second, before a Shakhtar escaped from the ambulance, is embarrassing and irritating, because he makes the same mistakes without the proper precautions from the coach.
Zidane
went further in the rotations and experiments of what the injuries of
Sergio Ramos and Carvajal
imposed
, and the result puts Madrid prematurely on a slope.
He will need the best in what comes to forget this game, because otherwise the man of the three Champions League could find his 'Alcorconazo' in the current one.
If against Cádiz, the right wing was occupied by
Nacho and Lucas Vázquez
, two footballers out of rhythm, even if it was for service needs, yesterday
Mendy and Asensio did it
, both on the opposite side to the one they usually occupy.
Benzema stayed on the bench and in the attack Rodrygo and Jovic appeared alongside the Spaniard.
None can be considered a holder.
Mendy's band change left
Marcelo
on the left, whose form is not ideal, as was evident against Cádiz.
The closest thing to recognizable Madrid was in the center of the field, with
Valverde, Casemiro and Modric
.
It is evident that Zidane thought about the classic and the Shakhtar, without eight headlines due to those infected with Covid, but he did not think in the appropriate way in Madrid, which is to take out winter clothes every day.
The technician may object that he does not have what is necessary in the closet, something that is on his mind and that of a good part of the dressing room, but that has to be claimed at the president's window.
In the field, you must optimize resources based on an analysis of the situation.
The one he did yesterday was the wrong one, and that is that Madrid is worse than ZZ thinks.
A rival plagued with casualties by Covid
Also of what
Luis Castro
, Shaktar coach,
believed
days ago for the suspension of the match due to the losses of his best players.
Up to eight of the heavyweights could not line up, including the starting goalkeeper, so a 19-year-old trembling giant appeared under the arch.
He did not have to stop anything relevant, just a shot from
Jovic's
auction
, for almost an hour of play, time that did not help him to get rid of his fear.
When he thought he had done it, he saw
Modric's
shell enter
, Madrid's first green shoot.
Until then, it was like a spectator who believed he was facing a mirage.
Luis Castro, with the antidive appearance of a
Pessoa
character
, the complete opposite of ZZ, withdrew his men in anticipation of the worst.
Only the rosary was missing.
On the other hand, he did not find the aggressiveness typical of a Madrid injured by what happened against Cádiz.
The passivity of others allowed him to loosen ties and open the channel to Zidane's group, unable to contain the departures of a Ukrainian team with a very Brazilian accent.
The white team was trotting, with excessive foot play and nothing to space, and without any ability to perform a coordinated pressure.
It was nothing.
Marlos
warned in a heads-up won by
Courtois
, that he would not be the only one, before Teté opened the scoring without being able to speak of an unexpected goal.
Contrary to the white reaction, it was the Brazilian who again forced an intervention from the Madrid goalkeeper, whose rejection was introduced into his goal by
Varane
in conflict with
Dentinho
.
Madrid was in multi-organ failure, a fact that allowed the best choral action of the match.
Solomon, who looked like a dynamo, dodged opponents as if they were ski doors, made a wall with Teté, who returned from heel, and the Israeli beat Courtois.
Benzema and Vinicius tickets
At the entrance of Benzema, after the break, Vinicius's followed, shortly after Modric reduced the distance with a fit of pride.
The Brazilian entered with the same will and made a pressure that Madrid had not done throughout the game to steal a ball and score.
With a third of the game to go, it was the key turning point.
But the reality is as stubborn as the form and Madrid do not even have the necessary for the epic.
Neither is the set.
As worrying as the first half was that lack of strength and resources in the outcome.
Valverde's shot to the net was annulled by an obvious positional offside by Vinicius.
The punishment could have been greater if it were not for Courtois and the fatigue of Marlos, Shakhtar captain, but now the question is to know if that punishment has been circumstantial for a Madrid that is to cry, if this 'Via Crucis' had only two seasons or awaits something worse, a crucifixion, at the Camp Nou.
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