Munich (Germany) (AFP)
Real offers a breath of fresh air! Under pressure after a disturbing preparation including a humiliation against Atletico (7-3), players Zinédine Zidane responded by winning 5 to 3, including a tripled Karim Benzema, Tuesday, in a friendly match against Fenerbahçe.
It was slow, but the people of Madrid avoided the worst thanks to a second period better controlled in this small final of the Audi Cup, a friendly tournament played in Munich.
"We will bring solutions, we will work, I am at death with my players, I know we will move forward and we will have a very good season," responded Zidane after the meeting.
"Nobody likes to concede three goals, but we scored five, so for us the victory is positive," he added.
The night had started very badly for Real, with a goal conceded in the 6th minute before being scared a few moments later with a ball saved by Keylor Navas.
With an apathetic defense, like the hinge Nacho-Varane outdated as soon as a player of the "Fener" entered the 25 meters, the Madrilenians seemed well left to live a complicated evening.
But the equalizer of the Frenchman Karim Benzema six minutes later awoke the Madrilenians, who have finally set foot on the ball to develop their game.
Eden Hazard, the head of the gondola project Madrid recruited 100 million euros this summer but disappointing so far, seemed more legged.
Transparent Tuesday in the defeat 1-0 against Tottenham, Hazard has proposed some interesting combinations with Marcelo and Benzema, before going out at halftime.
The Madrid striker was very available to him, participating in the construction of the game going down on the field and was rewarded for his efforts with a hat-trick.
But the defense worries: with sixteen goals conceded in five games, one every 28 minutes, Zidane has a job two weeks before the start of La Liga. Too quickly put in danger, it yielded three times, the players of Fenerbahçe taking advantage of the laxism of the rearguard Madrid.
Real however has some reasons to hope: in 2017, their poor preparation did not prevent them from achieving the double Liga-League of Champions under the orders of Zidane.
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