• Chronicle: Madrid fights with the goal

Madrid ended 2019 with a bitter draw at home that takes him out of the lead, two points now from Barça because of the stumble yesterday against Athletic. As in the Camp Nou , his goal drought punished him again. Zidane spent all his offensive bullets without finding the answer. Luck did not accompany his team either, with three shots to the accumulated sticks. "We had three games in a week and we left with only three points and a bad taste in our mouth," Courtois acknowledged. This time he did not go up to the attack to lend a hand, as in Mestalla .

"I don't see the need to sign a forward, absolutely not," Zidane replied bluntly in the press room. «I am disappointed by my players, because they have been very good. The goal has been missed again. You have to put it in football, ”he recalled. "It is little for what we have shown in the field," he said resigned by the three points in the three games of the week. «I am very happy with the evolution of the team. We are strong defensively. And above, the important thing is to create occasions. We are going to change this for sure in 2020. They are streaks, ”predicts the Marseillaise, wanting to see the glass half full.

The hangover of the classic came to the edge of the meeting last night at the Bernabéu , still warm the staff for the arbitration errors against his team in the classic. The audio that explained the operation of the VAR , always broadcast before the games, took away all the fury of the stands, in the form of a whistle. Each of the assumptions that explained the recording lit the audience a little more. In the club the failures of Hernández Hernández in a capital appointment for the development of the League were also poorly digested.

Without wanting to enter into controversies, Zidane asked in the previous one to have his head in the match against Athletic, rather than in regrets. The visitor deserved attention for the good season he is doing.

Raúl García's war

The first part passed between white attempts and many protests by Athletic , almost all of Raúl García. The Navarrese, since leaving the Calderón, likes to feel protagonist at the Bernabéu . Play every game against Real Madrid as if keeping many pending accounts. In one action he complained to the colleague even of a blow that one of his teammates had given him. It was Sergio Ramos who had to clarify it. His scored the only goal before the break, canceled out of play. Kodro, although he did not get on the scoreboard, did what Benzema, Vinicius and company did not know for 45 minutes of good play and harassment about the goal of Unai Simón .

The less thrashed goalkeeper of Primera showed his powers, safe and fast to block or cover holes to the frustrated Real Madrid forward. In one hand to hand with Vinicius he became giant for the Brazilian obfuscated and in another, before Toni Kroos , he smiled his fortune. The German's shot, after a splendid ride to the small area, hit him in the face before bouncing off the crossbar. Two more impacts on wood would add Madrid.

Barça's victory on Saturday forced Zidane to win, if they did not want to end the year off the head. An ugly way to close this first third of the season, especially after passing through the Camp Nou deserving perhaps more than that 0-0.

In the second part, the losses of time of the Basque team drove the stadium mad, frustrated by that goal of theirs that did not come in any way. «Athletic is a team that tries to frustrate you. The referee has followed his game and has not drawn any yellow, ”Courtois complained, fine in several interventions.

Zidane gave Jovic and the desperate rope, taking Vinicius away . The Brazilian duo, still tender, left without seizing the opportunity. The young Serbian premiered with a header to the wood before a Bernabeu attacked because of the damaging tie. Not even the incorporation of Sergio Ramos in the lead, the classic emergency solution, gave Madrid the desired gold. Three draws in seven days, all three with goal problems, leave him second in the League.

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