Six days after the serious thing begins in Vigo, Madrid is still a half-done team. It should be normal, because summers are for these tests and these procedures. What should not be so normal is that this team continues to drag many vices that undermined him so much last season. In Rome, Madrid suffered too far back in the first half and could not define after the break. It split so many times that you better not even think about it. Rome only took half of it. [Narration and statistics (2-2)]

And it is that his dependence on Dzeko remains as obvious as it is painful. Bosnian is left over to give full sense to attack football, with a control with the chest, with a turn before the centrals or with a ball into space like the one that placed Ünder. Nacho, a substitute for the indisposed Ramos, did not see the Turk from afar and the crossbar spit the ball. The slowness of the Canteran defender was bleeding and Ünder was priming. Courtois also had to take off his gloves before a monumental volley of Perotti.

Madrid also tickled when Hazard, who opened number 7, set his criteria. A shot from Casemiro with the inside put Pau López on the track. Marcelo's goal came with the right, after a great Modric maneuver. Too much those details of the Croatian have been missing in recent times. From that right interior area, Luka must blow up the offensive football of Madrid. Zidane knows that his future depends on recovering the Golden Ball.

Without automatisms, without forcefulness

The technician, very motivated even in the pause for hydration, also needs to polish this scheme of the three plants. There are no automatisms, no stability, no forcefulness. Madrid's defense continues to shake like a lily. With a career of Zaniolo before Militao, with the rainy centers of Florenzi from the right, with a clearing of Dzeko ... Any excuse is good to appear before Courtois.

In the first part, 14 shots against, half of them to goal. A bleak statistic that, logically, ended up translating into the scoreboard. The 1-1 came after a dismissal of Casemiro against Zaniolo and the lethal shot of Perotti on the second post. The 2-2, with an even more bleeding facility, thanks to Ünder and Dzeko. There was no truce for the unfortunate Courtois. Anyone can imagine the consequences of all this disruption next Saturday before Iago Aspas in Balaidos.

Madrid comes very green at the start of LaLiga, that tournament that threw overboard so many times in recent times. Zidane insists again and again on calls to order. He wants his players to pay attention in the first days. However, it is hard to think how this group can maintain a decent regularity when it does not even know how to keep its advantage for a minute. Because just before Dzeko's aforementioned goal, Casemiro had headed the net in flagrant forward position.

Good minutes from Bale

After the break, Zidane dispensed with Nacho to return to the defense of four. It gave Vinicius and Jovic a chance, that among so many physical setbacks he doesn't seem to have known very well what the story is about. The Brazilian, on the other hand, always leaves something for the demanding palates. From the right he served a great ball for Benzema, who repeated two more shots in a short time. Madrid was trying to raise the pressure line, although almost always offering that aspect of disgust. There is something like improvised and half done in this summer Madrid. And then, on another level, there's Bale.

Two weeks after the infant 7-3 in New Jersey, Zizou gave Welsh a chance again. Just 20 minutes with an encouraging balance. He moved with desire and harmful intentions. He could even define the triumph in one of those arrivals that someday gave him worldwide fame. At that time, the party was already friendly in all respects of the term. At least, Rome didn't harass Courtois so much. On the other plot, Jovic seemed determined to look for the goalkeeper instead of avoiding it. Vinicius, more rogue, forced Pau López to a remarkable stretch.

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