• Narration: So we live the game
  • Classification: This is group A

The place of a king or queen is not taken by anyone. The aristocracy requires upbringing, at least in football, where you are not a monarch where you are born, but because of what you do. Let's be serious. Rodrygo treads carpet of kings in the Bernabéu, the last Christian, and therefore any judgment about his performance needs the perspective of time. Too bad it doesn't exist. For now, she is a Cinderella in dreams, her own and those of others, who have not dropped her boots. They are very tight, like their game, always direct to the place of death which, in their case, is that of life, blessed life for this Madrid. [Narration and statistics: 6-0]

Rodrygo does many things well, but none of them weighs what the goal weighs. Madrid does not lack nuances, it has them all. What urges you are certainty, and these come with the many, which reinforce confidence and, immediately, the game. It is the virtuous circle of a team, whether or not football, the right and winning trend. The reverse sense makes it a vicious circle, which is where Madrid has repeatedly fallen with Bale.

The appearance of the Brazilian, regardless of the tangible on the scoreboard, also functions as an antibody against the frustration produced by the Welshman, a mortal footballer for those who face him and for those who accompany him. The history of Welsh in Madrid is not over, but Zidane decided long ago. You only need an alternative part, a guarantee to do what you want. Rodrygo, today, it is. Tomorrow we'll see.

This Galatasaray is the least competitive in time, despite living under the command of Fatih Terim. Time gets too long for everyone, especially for coaches. This was already palpable in the Ali Sami Yen, but then Rodrygo, which debuted ownership, was more tactical than daring, in a Madrid that could not afford a single mistake. Zidane then drew several conclusions. Of the five games played, two against the Turks, plus those played against Osasuna, Leganés and Betis, he has scored three, five goals in total, yesterday a hat trick, and most keys. There are goals and goals.

Benzema celebrates the first of his goals to Galatasaray.

Still in a compromised situation in the Champions League, the Brazilian scared ghosts with swipes as soon as he arrived. He scored at four and six minutes, and closed the act at 92. Three goals in which he did very different things, yes, before a defense that was like a Turkish delight: pure sugar. He always received from Marcelo from the left, first to cut and place the ball away from the wingspan of Muslera; then to nod in the ninth place. In the end, he rode to the area, partnered and closed the night as he had opened and dreamed it.

Zidane places it on the right, because it is the free place in the 4-3-3 attack, but because of its mobility, vision and shot, it would be an excellent second point. Anyway, he manages to go where he wants. He has the intuition to find the goal waiting room in the dark. That is a gift. There was not, however, his repertoire, because an exercise of pressure allowed the Brazilian to deepen and give the goal wrapped to a Benzema on fire. It was not quite anyone for the Frenchman, who with 49 goals in Europe matched Di Stéfano, although practically twice as many games. In the outcome, I would overcome it in one against: 50. Let's leave the comparison there.

The first two goals gave Madrid peace to like a little more. A stomp to Kroos on the lime that the VAR alerted allowed Sergio Ramos to make a Panenkita and reduce the effects of Marcelo's injury, very motivated and in a good tone until then. He has had a week of noise. He recognized being human and then getting into a mess. It is also human.

Terim changed players out of shame, but without the ball changing direction. The Titan Luyindama did not reach everything and Courtois was attentive when necessary. Zidane gave necessary breaks and minutes, as in Modric's bartering by Casemiro, and pulled Isco out of a trunk in the loft. At first he could score, but his football no longer seems like a story. The stories have another protagonist.

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