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Zinedine Zidane sweated in Chamartín , despite the winter atmosphere, with a turned neck. He came to the press room with his face sucked, fatigue in his eyes. Victory cost his horrors. «One of the most difficult of the season against a very good Sevilla.

We improve in the second part », analyzed the French after the 2-1 work that allows Madrid to remain at the top of the table. Triumph of those who have weight in the fight for the League, because the whites saw each other during a good match. The fog and the drowsiness embraced the duel at the start, without waking up the Bernabéu or the presentation of the Spanish Super Cup. The huge cranes (white, of course) loomed through the sky of the stadium, muscles of the renovation works that follow at full speed.

Below, Julen Lopetegui wore a chandal in the band with the coach he relieved less than it seems. The Sevilla coach won a tender ovation from his audience for a while. In the club they remember the famous scene of the tennis ball dancing on the net, in the movie Match Point , to summarize their passage through Real Madrid. That decisive moment, which shows Woody Allen's work so well, was suffered by Lopetegui at the Camp Nou, in that Modric ball that went to the post instead of a goal. The 2-2 would have rewarded the rabid exit of his team to the second part of the Classic.

But no, the club spat the ball, Barcelona ended up winning 5-1 and the Basque was fired the next day. He had no fortune in his short stage, with a nonsense record that illustrates his unfortunate 2019: he linked his Madrid eight hours (almost five games) without scoring a goal. Even so, his old house keeps him in love.

At rest he left with the feeling of not having taken advantage after drowning Zidane's. He saw De Jong door in an excellent header at the exit of a corner, but the VAR detected a blockade at the limit of Gudelj on Militao . He sought with his shoulder to stop the rival defender, hitting him in the face. The video arbitration warned of the action and Martínez Munuera , the referee, canceled the goal after checking the play on the screen. Sevillist outrage, social networks on fire, jokes about Madrid's power with the VAR (this time, yes; the day of the classic, no) ... And Lopetegui, hard to the linier's ear with the claim.

Monchi's irritation

«We were frustrated. I don't understand what he has said, ”he said later. "There's a lack, it's a clear block," Zidane said. The visiting coach was happier in the 1-1, without considering the control room punishable (involuntary) contact of the ball in Munir's arm, a tenth of a second before the spectacular shot of De Jong. Seville was so annoying that its sports director, Monchi , released one of the pearls of the League. "If they cancel the goal of De Jong, I go down to the field and take the team out," he said, recalling an unforgettable 82 World Cup scene, when the president of the Kuwait federation went down from the Zorrilla box to the grass to withdraw his team, very angry with the referee "That is a bit strong," Zidane replied when they told him what the irritated Monchi had said.

Casemiro cleared the dense afternoon. His first double wrapped a very complete match, of those that strengthen the idea of ​​its importance in the drawing of ZZ. «You have to know how to suffer. We like to have the ball but it is not always possible, ”explained the midfielder about the long moments of misgovernment of his team. «Sevilla plays very well. His coach knows what he plays for, ”he said.

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