• Chronicle: Valladolid bitter to the Bernabéu
  • Zidane. "We had to have sent the ball to take for sack"

On August 31, 2014, the cover of EL MUNDO said that Podemos was on the heels of the PSOE, according to the polls. The photo was of Duran i Lleida with Artur Mas and the sports reference, a story about the humble origins of Munir , the star canterano of Barcelona at that time. That summer Real Madrid appeared in Anoeta for the second day of the League. On the shoulder, the brand new cockade of the tenth and in the starting lineup, two signings that came from shining in the World Cup in Brazil: Toni Kroos and James Rodríguez . Around him, Isco , Bale and Benzema from above; Ramos, Marcelo or Carvajal from behind. All of them again coincided on the board now by Zinedine Zidane (the one from five years ago was from Ancelotti ). Neither in 2014 nor in 2019 that team managed to get the three points in play.

The injury of Hazard and market jams such as James or Bale caused a formation seen five years ago, reflecting the faith of the coach and the club in some players who starred in the second golden stage of the entity's history. A dry braking period last season, suddenly questioned the entire squad. In the opening of the new course, as in a trip to the past, the Bernabéu reviewed the eleven with curiosity. James, who always spent a good sign at the white stadium, was received with a strong ovation, after his two years of loan at Bayern Munich. He has already heard applause in a Champions League semifinal, where he scored for the Germans. His left-handed like, like Bale's when he accelerates like yesterday afternoon.

As in Vigo the previous week, the Welshman shone above his teammates, in another claiming function after a summer with the suitcases made and the settlement ready. However, it was of little use when Madrid returned to accuse the evil that caused him to take off last season, his lack of goal. A good first part, loaded with verve and push on a Valladolid totally enclosed in its area, was not enough to open the scoreboard. Benzema, when the nerves punished the stadium, drew the 1-0 that seemed final.

But no, the whites, in addition to their problems of success, wore again an improper crystal jaw of sets with such experience. Neither Kroos nor Ramos did the necessary fault to avoid the assistance of the visiting draw, in the last breath of the match. La Liga again starts to hurt Real Madrid too soon. A draw at home against Valladolid does not fit the plans of a title candidate. So the accounts don't end up coming out in spring.

"We deserved better results," said Varane, who declined to blame the strikers. "They have done very well, there has only been a lack of precision in the last touch," he reviewed in French central, of the few that did not appear in the aforementioned eleven of 2014. That day without victory, as yesterday, was not Cristiano Ronaldo. «It is not a physical issue. The truth is that we play the second part worse. After the goal we had to close and send the ball to take for sack ”, summed up Zidane.

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