• Chronicle: A Real Madrid without a goal does not want the League
  • Opinion: Zidane is pure anxiety, by Julián Ruiz

With Gareth Bale injured longer than expected, Zinedine Zidane has been working the first months of the season on a new attack trident to try to bring some joy to the Santiago Bernabéu. The physical problems of Eden Hazard at the beginning of the course forced the French coach to improvise companions for Karim Benzema: Lucas Vázquez, James Rodríguez, Vinicius ...

But since the return of the Belgian, the best against Betis, white 7 and 9 have become accustomed to seeing the same young man on the right, again and again: Rodrygo Goes . Zidane repeated for the third consecutive meeting with Hazard , Benzema and the Brazilian teenager. It went well against Galatasaray (0-1), against Leganés (5-0) and cost him much more against the Andalusians. "We are not going to always score five goals. The important thing is to generate the chances and we have only missed one goal," explained the coach, smiling, despite everything, for the leadership shared with Barça: "We are up, so we are doing well. We have all lost points, it is the best league in the world and it is not easy to win, it is the beautiful thing.

Madrid, too slow and horizontal, found accommodation and verticality in the starts of Hazard and Rodrygo from left and right, and Bernabéu and Benzema only lit up when the ball passed through them. The Belgian likes to face diagonally to find walls or a shot, such as the goal annulled by the VAR, and the Brazilian, stuck to the lime line, is patient to find his moment.

The tier, anxious

The former Santos tried whenever he could, but he did not get the goal prize or fruit connections with his teammates. Exhausted by the double weekly day, he left the field to a Vinicius forced to eat the grass to recover gallons. The former Flamengo, more powerful and with less technical definition, again sinned from the same mistakes of these months on several clear occasions. The stands, anxious for a goal, showed their nervousness with him.

Benzema, meanwhile, caused the controversial play of the night with a center that ended with the ball hitting Feddal's hand. The referee, in communication with the VAR room, dismissed the airy protests of Chamartín and did not point out maximum penalty: "I saw hand, but what remains is the interpretation of the referee," said Zidane, who insisted on "respecting" the decision of the collegiate. Butragueño , however, was more restless before Movistar's cameras: "We are confused with the decision. I don't know why the VAR goes sometimes in one direction and sometimes in another. We understood that it would solve these situations clearly."

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