Hazard wakes up from a whip to a convincing Madrid against Huesca

In a Madrid that moved like a car, slowly, someone looked up and whipped to change the fundamentals.

It wasn't someone new, but as if it was.

returning to the title after a year and a half of irregularity, injuries and gossip.

The zapatazo that brought a good Huesa back to the reality of the hierarchy had something of an exorcism for the Belgian.

It was demonstrated by the way of celebrating it, impassive, as if he did not want to share the joy that the goal produces after so much has been said about it.

He showed that pride of a gunman who kills and looks at the horizon.

Nothing to say, as long as he doesn't stop doing it.

Hazard's goal tipped the score in an interwar game, before another momentous one against Inter, on the way to a solvent victory and better feelings.

Good for what's next, albeit with a different tenant.

Better not forget it.

This could explain part of Madrid's tiresome pace in the first half hour.

One interpretation is that he was playing one match while thinking about another, although the bad record raised suspicions to the contrary.

Slow, with more balls at the foot than in space and a shortage of chances, some of the symptoms that we already saw against Cádiz or Sahkhtar were reproduced, also in Valdebebas, although with fewer errors in defensive coverage.

Just

made us feel any vulnerability, but without pushing Courtois to the limit.

Unlike those precedents, neither did

shake the line-up in the same way.

The entry of Hazard left

on the bench

, and it is a coincidence that the return of the Belgian as a starter coincided with a hard week for the Brazilian due to the words of

in which he questioned his game.

An ugly business.

The Frenchman sought the complicity of the Belgian in the field as he cannot with the Brazilian, who always looks forward.

That, however, was able to give Benzema himself a goal after the Brazilian's entry, in the second half.

All profiles can complement each other, whatever the time of the game, and that is part of the coach's job.

Asensio

completed the attack.

The best of the Balearic is still expected, but the insistence of the coach shows that he is one of his chosen pieces.

The alternations will continue, sure, but everything indicates that for ZZ there is no more starting attack than the one lined up against Huesca.

The three combined in the counter that ended in the third goal, carefully combed by Benzema the final pass to Valverde, all power.

At the hour, ZZ gave Hazard and Asensio rest, as well as Uruguayan.

The reason was obvious.

He wants them fresh for Inter.

Marcelo

joined a band that is already

on the big days and with all the right sides, at least if the Brazilian doesn't reach his peak of form.

served as an auxiliary on the right until he left his place to the French, in the second half.

While waiting for the return of

, any combination is possible.

In the center of the field,

rested

and

entered

, splendid in the flood of the game, and Valverde remained, carrying the oxygen bottles for the others.

Press for all, but better to press where and when to do it.

His energy is, today, as important for Madrid as

position

.

With a single shot from

, the best 'puncher' in the opposite area, a fact that insistently signals a deficit, Madrid did not activate until the hour of play, in which it took a step forward in the intensity and speed of the ball.

When he doesn't, he can be dominated by anyone, and he knows that well after what happened in previous weeks.

Huesca did it, supported by his good ball output, very safe.

For

, a coach who is going to promote, it is a rule but not inflexible.

He has footballers to do it and connect with

, an element of a good school in the media.

This Huesca is more mature than that of his first step for the first time and has managed to balance himself with assignments like

, weak against Madrid, or promises that were out of focus, like

One of his problems is that he arrived in Valdebebas with the quota of scares exhausted.

In front was a very alert Madrid.

goal

, in one against, was no longer enough to enter the game, given the disadvantage.

When Hazard received from Valverde, Madrid already lived in the three quarters of the field.

The Belgian spun and supported the defender's charge to guide the ball with his control.

He fired with his left, dry and hard, despite not being his main leg.

That says good things about his recovery: the security of a player is appreciated in his hit.

With no time to reposition himself,

made one of Huecas' few mistakes until then and Benzema controlled

center in the area

to beat

, also with the left.

The quality in its purest form had ended the game, downhill for a Madrid that increased the score, thanks to Valverde and Benzema again, and did not break down like other times despite the changes and the goal of Huesca.

Better feelings, then, before the first of the very final in the Champions League.

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