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When Benzema, Hazard, Modric and even the reborn Isco are tuned, they are like the strings of a harp, capable of composing the best melody for a symphonic Madrid. Music, on the other hand, does not always come together with victory, because in the club of the rich, even those who do not tune have percussion. The PSG is the test, where Mbappé emerges at the same time that Neymar lanquidece . A mistake and a whip turned off the melody of the Bernabéu, but nobody can deny that one lives and dreams better with music. [2-2: Narration and statistics]

In the middle of the debate about Bale, Zidane remembers who is no longer debating: Isco. The smile coach is the impenetrable coach. Isco did not appear in the band, but where he can really value his qualities, at the tip of a rhombus that formed the center of the field. The bet for the Malaga was also for a different system, with four midfielders . With Valverde, Zidane's emergency Pogba, anchored to eleven, the alternation corresponds to Modric and Kroos. Before the PSG, the Croatian started at the bank. However, the versatility and mobility of these players makes the system only a starting point, when placed in a defensive situation.

If in addition the attackers are Hazard and Benzema, the possibilities are multiplied, because we are not talking about auctioneers, but of strikers with an enormous capacity for association, in addition to the auction or overflow, in the case of the Belgian. They are quick minded, fast in deployment and accurate. They showed it in the first quarter of the game against the PSG, as in the second match against the Real or the entire event in Eibar. Then we saw a Madrid that was pressing, it was balanced, it was beautiful and it was aggressive over the arc of a Keylor who seemed never to have left. He stopped as always, in front of Kroos, Benzema or Isco ... A lot.

Unexpected outcome

White goals summed up how good Madrid did. He rode and overflowed Hazard, put the precise touch Valverde, threw the stick Isco and riveted Benzema. It is an intangible symptom of a change. Already in the second half were Modric, Isco, Marcelo and, again, Benzema at the auction . Not only does he go to the goal with his chest, but the goal goes to the Frenchman.

Nothing then foreshadowed the outcome. The PSG felt overwhelmed, not knowing how to part with the local domain, in an inverted situation to that of Paris. How we have changed, Zidane would say. The PSG only found in the long ball of Keylor the way to overcome the high pressure of Madrid, exercised with energy, with faith and with great solidarity. There are no longer officers released from service. If you have to run, all Indians.

Tuchel had left Neymar in the bank , but he had no choice but to turn to the Brazilian after the break. Only at the end of the first period could the dominance of Madrid be shaken and the area of ​​Courtois threatened. The goalkeeper was not well in an exit in which he committed penalty on Icardi. The VAR rewound and found a previous foul on Marcelo, fine, fine, which avoided something very serious: the penalty and the expulsion of Courtois. Before that, if the Bernabéu felt threatened, it was when he saw Mbappé run. It starts with an insulting power, like a cheetah in the middle of a flock. He escaped to yield to Icardi, who finished high, and looked for the one against Sergio Ramos. Not even the captain in his best version is enough against such a wonder. You have to defend it with help, which Madrid did well.

The danger of the Frenchman was more in the sensations than in the facts. In the same way, Tuchel felt it, which threw Neymar into the field instead of a midfielder and kept Di Maria, Mbappé and Icardi. He wanted to surrender to the exchange of blows and, in the end, he achieved his goal. Neymar lost balls, too many . It was a shadow. No one knows if your problem is injury or health. The French comeback would not bear his name.

The misunderstanding of Varane and Courtois left Mbappé where he had not been able to be, and the PSG found itself before unexpected minutes. In front of players with such a punch, any sneeze triggers pneumonia. Sarabia, with a hard shot, achieved a tie that Bale could undo at the last minute, but the melody sounded intact.

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