• Chronicle.Benzema decides the derby
  • Bernabéu. The sash with Simeone
  • Opinion: Atlético exhibits its shame

The Real Madrid coach saw in the first part the same as the rest of the spectators. a) That Atlético was dominating his team. b) That his midfielders orchestra was challenging. c) That more offensive knife was needed. "Zidane changed the game at halftime," applauded Thibaut Courtois, who again owns a zero in his goal. The victory in the derby was accompanied by a historic defensive record for whites: he had never reached day 22 with only 13 goals conceded. In that data, a good part of the leader's takeoff emerges, consolidated at the head of the table after an always tasty victory against the neighbor. Since December 2012, Real Madrid did not win a league derby at home. José Mourinho was there that day in the band.

«We had to make a change. I don't like to take out two players, but it was necessary , ”the French coach later explained, with a lot of focus on the win. If he was looked at in the beginning, with an approach that proved wrong against the red and white block, he had to look at the end, because of the jolt he made at the break. The double relay (Isco and Kroos by Lucas Vázquez and Vinicius) revolutionized the afternoon. The goal came very soon, the work of Benzema, the offensive prop of a team that grows every week. Zidane wanted to protect the players he left in the locker room. «I was not happy with what I saw on the field, but it is not the responsibility of the players, but mine. I changed Isco and Toni, but they could be two others, ”he justified.

Even Felipe, the central red and white, recognized the merit of the local coach. "They made two very aggressive changes and we were far behind," he said critically to his own. The two players who shook the derby were happy with their work. Two substitutes that ended up being transcendental, just what ZZ looks for with its workforce management. Let them all add up. One on the right and one on the left encouraged the pressure up and opened the field to the fullest, before an Atlético without the vigor by then who had shone at the start of the crash. "Lucas Vázquez and I entered very well and changed the game," said Vinicius proudly, ideologue of the play that decided the derby. He put it in depth to Mendy, author of assistance to Benzema, 13 goals in the League.

A Zidane comes out all face in recent times, launched Madrid in the league and Cup, the Champions League tie against Manchester City waiting for the end of the month. "Many expected us to stumble into the derby," Courtois said.

If the French relive his best moments in Madrid, Simeone goes through its darkest period. "Cholo don't go, Cholo stay . " With the triumph of the derby in his pocket, the Bernabéu ended up singing the rival coach with a lot of fun. In less than a month, a title won against the neighbor and a league duel of great importance conquered. And in memory, those two Champions final. The shout came out of the animation background, but soon the whole stadium was animated. "I didn't hear anything," he replied later. In the previous one, Morata and Simeone took the big whistles, plus the coach, although it was also striking that of the youth player, winner of two white Champions. Courtois saw no penalty in the case with Casemiro: "Morata stumbles on his feet."

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