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Bale , the player Zidane wanted out of Real Madrid "the sooner the better", avoided the first white defeat of the course. The Welshman signed the two goals of the draw before being expelled, by two yellow, against Villarreal after another discreet encounter that does not clear the doubts that the team has been generating throughout the summer. [Narration and statistics: 2-2]

Zidane surprised with the eleven and the drawing. Modric , available after his sanction, was left on the bench and the French coach changed his usual system to leave Casemiro and Kroos alone in the engine room. The result was a Madrid that spent almost half an hour running behind Villarreal, who played with a couple more marches and had Cazorla . A soccer player like the Spaniard is what the whites were missing, unable to get the handle of the game.

Quite the opposite of the people of Castellón, whose staging was intimidating. With the lines very advanced, they did not let the Zidane team think and left looking for the speed of Chukwueze , tied shortly by a solvent Mendy , and Ekambi as soon as they recovered the ball, under the baton of Cazorla.

His goal, however, came thanks to a mistake by Ramos at the exit of the ball, partly due to the high pressure of the yellows. Gerard stole and threw for Ekambi, whose first shot Courtois cleared leaving the free ball for the Catalan to embocate. This time the VAR helped Villarreal, giving validity after the assistant had initially invalidated the action.

It was not until half an hour later when the whites began to sing, who still had a hard time disarming the yellow defense if it was not in some counterattack or in a side center, one of the weak points of the Castellón. Casemiro was able to tie after a bad exit of Andrés to by a center of Lucas Vázquez.

When Real Madrid began to move the ball with more speed came the problems for Villarreal, who had been losing prominence. Benzema warned with a shot to the post just a minute before Bale tied for the first half added. The Welshman culminated a good combination between Jovic and Carvajal to reward white improvement.

They continued to dominate those of Zidane after the break but without much more plan than hanging balls to the area trying to take advantage of the doubts of his rival above. However, they had their options to complete the comeback, but Andrés Fernández aborted a double shot by Kroos and Benzema canceled a goal for the VAR by centimeters.

When Zidane wanted to give his team a boost from the bench, giving entry to Modric and Vinicius, Villarreal's goal came. The yellows, who had been all the second time without approaching the area of ​​Courtois, took advantage of another rejection of the Belgian goalkeeper, shot by Gerard, to score, pushing Moi Gómez in the mouth of goal the service of Ontiveros.

Bale still kept a bullet in the bedroom, with a good maneuver and a left-handed tie, but also two absurd actions that took him to the locker room ahead of time, in those minutes when Madrid is not Madrid.

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