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Hazard is like the honey that Madrid needs while recomposing its texture with two firings, like the authentic sponge cake, although it always gives the feeling of needing a more heat stroke, because there is a quiet day at the Bernabéu. The young Valverde is in the kitchen. The lack of caco explosions offered by Cristiano prevents him from being that stampede team, as unbalanced as lethal, because now there are no goals to compensate for a mismatch or a fry error like Areola's . Bad baptism as your headline. Zidane's need the tension and order of a small team. When Madrid has them, it goes out of the Metropolitan's oven without burning; when he loses them, anyone threatens him, even the worst Granada of the course. Being big and working like a small one, however, does not shine the shield, nor does it lift the audience from the seats. In the absence of dark chocolate, well, then, a little honey. [Narration and statistics: 4-2]

The action that took Hazard out of the suspicion in the stands, crowned with the second goal of Madrid, had before everything Zidane wants right now for his team, represented in the young Valverde , a titan from start to finish in a center from the field of which Kroos was absent, injured, and which Modric did not reach until his replacement. The Uruguayan, who was also at the origin of the third goal, the work of the Croatian, fought in pressure and the melee in the three quarters to throw Hazard vertically. The Belgian reached the limit, but despite this he knew how to see where Rui Silva was , in no man's land, and touch subtly to make a hat to the goalkeeper. That is savoir faire .

Hazard is a player of quality and speed, capable of changes in pace, career orientation and dry braking. But he is also a tough player, although he has not yet had options to see him the Bernabéu. It resists the loads in the race well, favored by a powerful lower train and a low center of gravity. Messi is the best example of that quality. Madrid's second goal play proved it.

Carvajal, on the left

The Belgian started on the left, ahead of an improvised side in that demarcation, Carvajal . The injury of all the candidates led Zidane to place Odriozola in his natural place and change the right holder. Interestingly, he played his best game, after an irregular season start. From that place, he arrived in the area, hand in hand with Rui Silva.

Before it appeared, however, Bale did it, on the right. The crash had just started when Soldier claimed, as a possessed, a hand of Sergio Ramos in the area. It was not a penalty, but the situation caused that minimal deconcentration in Granada when the white counter was armed. Bale received without anyone over and sent a center of fantasy and precision abroad. Benzema beat a sold Rui Silva. The goal offered the tail wind that the team needed after the Champions League draw. Combinative and fast, with two-touch play and excellent reaction to loss, Madrid offered one of its best versions of the year, although it must also be said that it rarely found more facilities. The goal took Granada from the game and Diego Martínez from his boxes. To top it all, he soon lost Montoro , one of his leaders in the field.

Fede Valverde tries to take the ball to Herrera.

Machís was the only one who stubbed the Odriozola clearings, but could only score a penalty, after a childish error by Areola, who fell asleep with the ball and ended up knocking down the striker who went to dispute the ball. Shortly after, he measured poorly in a center and Varane took out a ball that could have ended up in the net. The performance of a goalkeeper is like a sensor of the nervous system of a team. In Madrid, today, it is a problem.

Duarte's goal , after a stationary ball action, was not attributable to Areola, but to the situation created by his previous error, which allowed an unexpected flood of Granada against a Madrid that already looked winning. Zidane put James in the field instead of Bale, one more midfielder, and Madrid did know how to find one more cooking, this time, to scare away fear with the Colombian's goal.

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