Benzema to dream, Madrid to suffer

• Statistics, that's how we live the game

Benzema football is like a long aging wine. Better with the years, with the nuances acquired during a maturation too patient for their profession. The game has time, of course, but what this game has become, no. Benzema survives, then, to a measure of grace of destiny, caused by many circumstances that had nothing to do with the French, but that have allowed him to reach the perfect bouquet when most had, we had, lost sight of the barrel. Inside was a 'nine' who is not a scorer, a scorer who is not 'nine', an enigma, today, at the head of a major enigma, that Madrid that courts the self-destruction even on its best day. No one knows how the story will end, because one dreams and one suffers.

When the Frenchman made a bicycle and then sent a ball to the wood of the goal of the Levant, the Bernabéu started applause from the raincoat. By then, Benzema had already scored two goals and started the third way, the work of Casemiro . In an eleven marked by circumstances, by casualties that led him to not count on who best observes his movements, Modric, and to be accompanied on the sides by Vinicius and Lucas Vázquez , the French decided to act as leader. That role is that of Sergio Ramos , but the center is too far from the goal, except when the area against the ball stops. Madrid needs character where you win . It is what has been missing most in Benzema during his decade of white, perhaps nicknamed by the company of Cristiano. For the French, already in the thirties and away from the world champion France, it is now or never: mark and shout or die. His way of celebrating the goals is significant of the Benzema who wants to leave behind. The problem is that its maturation is mismatched with that of its team.

The three goals, all in the first part, arrived soon for a Madrid that needed them , because doubts are around after a strange summer and a bad start. Killing them soon is key. Believing it is a danger. Zidane's team had done something right in the beginning, and it was to prevent the cons of Levante. Just one, thanks to Morales, put together Paco López's team in the first period. When he thought they could no longer germinate, evils returned, trust betrayed him. Borja Mayoral, an ex, found his chance at the start of the second half and Carvajal and Courtois ' mistakes served Melero the opportunity to enter a game they were out of. Keylor's shadow is as elongated as the Belgian goalkeeper, who was redeemed in part with a saving stop, which prevented the tie in the outcome.

At the start, Madrid pressed after loss and was insistent, although not always precise, when attacking the defense of five of the Levant. Vinicius, on the left due to Bale's absence, initially lacked intention. James officiated as a midfielder, given the losses of Modric, Isco and Valverde , all injured, but his nature led him to the erogenous areas of the field, and with very bad intentions. His match was really complete. From that place, the Colombian subtly yielded to Benzema so that the French would seek the position to beat Aitor for the second time. In the first, minutes before, he left behind to win the position of 'nine' and head to the network between the two centrals.

The Frenchman attacks the area with much more aggressiveness since the end of last season, but without losing the main quality: his movement. It is not a 'nine' that references to the centrals, on the contrary. It is not in the area to finish off, it arrives to finish off. Adding the goal in a sustained way to your catalog changes its dimension.

Benzema had made a Bernabéu dream who was waiting anxiously for Hazard . The great signing came out and left a veronica half-throne. It is one of the greats. But his minutes were detrimental to those of Casemiro, who had achieved the third goal in the most clairvoyant action of Vinicius. Removing the midfielder is like removing the bung cap. The game opened in such a way that, aware of Borja Mayoral joined Melero, much more serious. If in the first there was a lack of concentration, in the second, old evils, errors and lack of adjustments were reproduced.

It was logical that Zidane gave Casemiro a break with that advantage. He came to play with Brazil, comes the PSG and, given the march of midfielders without replacement, has become the unique Chinese vase of the Bernabéu. The question is that they left the field, successively, the Brazilian and Sergio Ramos , despite not making their best game after so much red carpet. The Levante, which had been sustained thanks to a master Aitor, despite fitting three goals, activated Morales in the spaces and had his options. Courtois was right after failing while Benzema covered his face on the bench. After quarreling and dreaming, suffer and curse. The Bernabéu, this year, will not lack anything.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

• Courtois
• Luka modric
• Thibaut Courtois
• Sergio Ramos
• PSG
• Madrid
• Lucas Vázquez
• Isco Alarcón
• Gareth Bale
• France
• Eden Hazard
• Dani Carvajal
• Brazil
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