Abraham P. Romero
Updated Saturday, January 27, 2024-20:06
Chronicle Madrid wakes up on time from its nap in Gran Canaria
22nd day Classification in First
The grass cutter El Madrid clapped his hands
The goals from
Vinicius and Tchouaméni
gave
Madrid
the sixth comeback in the League, the tenth of the season if the three games against
Unión Berlin
and
Napoli
in
the Champions League
and the Super Cup semi-final against Atlético are also counted. Nine occasions in which the Madrid fans enjoyed something that is now part of the white idiosyncrasy: turning the score around. Against Las Palmas, in one of the most difficult outings they had left in the entire season,
Ancelotti
's men were able to overcome
Javi Muñoz
's 0-1 lead .
"We have a motivated bench, which contributes a lot. We would like to get ahead, but it can't always happen. I'm left with the fact that I look at the bench and I have many alternatives to change the games," praised Ancelotti about his players. In Gran Canaria, Tchouaméni jumped from the wing to head the score 1-2. "When we fell behind, we took a step forward and found solutions. We planned to control in the first half and attack in the second because our rival had only conceded two goals in the first half. It is a very important victory," said the Italian .
The whites turned around 1-0 in
Almería
, 0-1 against
Getafe
, 0-1 against
Real
, 1-0 and 2-1 in Naples, 1-0 against
Barça
, 0 -1 and 1-2 for Napoli at the Bernabéu, 1-0 in Berlin, 0-1 and 2-3 for Atlético in Arabia, 1-2 for Almería in Chamartín and yesterday, in a difficult fiefdom, to 1-0 by Javi Muñoz.
Decisive substitute
Ten comebacks that help maintain the streak of 15 consecutive games without losing in the League, a statistic that lifts Madrid towards the leadership at the expense of what Girona does in Vigo. In the Canary Islands, moreover, with the appearance of Tchouaméni after the doubts that the Frenchman had left in recent days, especially against Atlético in the Metropolitano: "He played the game he usually does. From the head he showed that we are very dangerous at dead ball," declared
Carletto
, and he is right.
Madrid is the team in the League that scores the most goals from rehearsed plays: nine, eight of them from the corner. A credit to the footballers but also to the technical
staff
and the assistants who are dedicated to working on set pieces, with
Davide Ancelotti
in charge.
"A cake at the hotel"
Tchouaméni was exultant after a key goal: "This is how the Leagues are won. We work on set pieces before each game and that makes us good," he explained, celebrating that it was also his birthday. "We celebrated with a cake at the hotel and then to Madrid to enjoy it," he joked.
The match once again featured a notable performance by Vinicius, who scored the tying goal and was the most incisive Whites player on the field. He was the one who dribbled the most and the one who made the most shots on the
Valles
goal , becoming at times more of a center forward than a winger. Of his seven shots, one ended up being 1-1 and although he made mistakes in several definitions trying to make some impossible shot, the corner came from his boots that would end in Tchouaméni's goal. "I took him off in the 90th minute because I wanted a more solid team in defense," concluded Ancelotti.