Bale launches a very serious Madrid in Vigo

Madrid takes three points to Barcelona on the first day of the League, an accounting difficult to imagine just 48 hours ago, when the Whites hurried a preseason for oblivion and the Catalans fantasized with a front, Neymar through, cartoons. The latter is still possible, in a market close that is surely dotted with the first results of the League. The white one was very good in an always elusive scenario [narration and statistics]. Madrid behaved with the seriousness it never had at the end of last year and in the summer carousel of friendlies. The victory against Celta is the best thing that has happened to the Zidane team in months.

It was not necessary to have a football chair to intuit that Gareth Bale was going to start as a plane the season. The story is repeated in the summers, with players that touch the exit and just heroes. He is not new in Welsh, author of several goals in the first days. Yesterday afternoon he hit a dance in the left band of Celta to break waist, to place the assistance of 0-1 to Karim Benzema. Fist of celebration of the soccer player who was going to China and, at the moment, body to earth to cut a vivid arrival. Almost four kilometers said the television he had been in less than half an hour. Well that, a plane the British.

The trouble is that summer loves are as intense as they are fast, soon forgotten in the office in September. We'll see if the discarded Bale holds the rhythm, setting a really solid course. His version yesterday in the first part was world top ten , leaving a race that reminded of the viral video of Usain Bolt this summer. In the tweet sequence the athlete is seen getting into a player climbing from area to area at the speed of light to try to finish off. A similar sprint signed Bale on the right, to end up centering outside. Somewhat later, in the other band - ubiquitous - forced Rubén Blanco's paradox. The Celtic goalkeeper prevented Madrid from getting on track before the break . To that stretch he added a fantastic left hand at ground level to Luka Modric's shot. Whites set a very serious exit, in their usual format (4-3-3) and without a single new face on the eleven, after the untimely injury of Eden Hazard.

Benzema's goal

Casemiro was embedded in front of the rear to give air to Modric above and the centrals behind him. From a recovery of theirs, without making prisoners , the first goal play sprang up. Balaidos roared for the lack that not even three repetitions cleared up, since the Brazilian touched the ball first (and then the opponent). But while Aspas protested furiously, Madrid was already celebrating getting ahead in a league debut marked with concern at the white club, after a nightmare preseason.

The Zidane team responded rigorously on all lines, without frills, but with personality. Even Bale and Vinicius covered with effort the climbs of the local lanes. Only the Frenchman from the beginning faltered his right side. In the bureaucratic chirigota of the last hours between the Federation and the CSD, it ended up being the Competition Committee of the Federation itself who amended the plan to both organizations denying the legality of that pardon that Rubiales had signed after the deadline to let the players play footballers who dragged five yellows from the last day of the last League, Dani Carvajal among them . He traveled to Vigo, but ended up in the stands and Odriozola in his post. The San Sebastian gave the tie in a disastrous defensive play, where he chained error after another in the clearance. Aspas, old fox, did not miss the gift, giving the goal to Brais. Only the VAR came to alleviate Odriozola canceling both out of play.

Red to Modric

Yes it was in order - not like the fake pardons - the new rules on the entries behind the heel of the adversary, in theory all grounds for expulsion. But before the coldness of the law should be the interpretation of the referee, before sets like the one that cost Modric the red one shortly after returning from the break. The VAR detected the Croatian's kick; the stomping more for being late than with the intention of assaulting. Not even Yellow judged Estrada live, but the video showed him the foul. Without much desire, to verify that the Croatian was far from wanting to hurt Denis Suarez, he threw the decision from the field, as adjusted to the rules as exaggerated by the real aspect of it.

The blow came at the worst possible time for Madrid, just when it was shaking the most at the response of Celta, launched by the former Barcelona player. Denis took advantage of Odriozola's weakness to carry the attack on his side. From there, a minute after Modric's departure, a great center for Araújo arrived, in the heart of the area. His head-to-head was cleared spectacularly by Courtois, in one of those stops that Madrid longed for so much in his first season. The Belgian saved the white advantage in an action that proved capital for his team, because of the scare he went on to celebrate thanks to the laser pointer of Toni Kroos. He does not score much German, but his goals are not forgotten. Often zapatazo drew in Balaidos the squad of Blanco, the best of Celta. His flight to the squad did not serve the accuracy of the shot. The 0-2 compensated Madrid for Modric's red and crushed Celta at all. A Coruña, Lucas Vázquez, another Zidane classic, made the third to give a good color to a team that was pale on the official trip. "The preseason is preseason," Benzema had recalled.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Luka modric
• Gareth Bale
• Álvaro Odriozola
• Iago Aspas
• CSD
• Usain Bolt
• Toni Kroos
• Thibaut Courtois
• China
• Courtois
• Neymar
• Dani Carvajal
• Lucas Vázquez
• Eden Hazard
• Karim Benzema
• First division
• sports

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