Fate wants you, Asensio. There is no way to explain what happened, there is no football to argue how a footballer who has spent a year injured, finds the opportunity to recover in time to return thanks to a misfortune, the pandemic, and scores on the first ball he touches on his return. You can only ask fate, as arbitrary as love itself. He wants or he doesn't want, cest tout . [Narration and statistics (3-0)]

Let's go back, then, to football, which was bad for Madrid before an interesting society was activated: Benzema-Hazard. Small partnerships are for a team like beams for a building. The one that the French and the Belgian have created is different from the one that the former had with Cristiano, because it implied submission to the king, with the right of pardon. With Hazard it is different, there is no alpha male.

If in the first half it was Benzema who yielded to the Belgian on the first occasion stopped by Cillessen, then on the second time the roles were exchanged to turn the tide of an uncertain clash, with a more incisive Valencia until then. Asensio's fable came later, although the Mallorcan offered more than his magical goal, assisting Benzema to close the act in a big way, with control, hat and goal.

Nothing started as it ended, because Zidane initially thought about the control and the lack of control took him away. When he stirred the emotions, Madrid returned, taking Sergio Ramos to the area. When the captain jumps into the mountains, something is going to happen. The coach introduced Valverde in the eleven, but not the Valverde from before the break. In another position, heeled, and with another energy, he wandered without influencing either offensively or defensively. He is a player who needs spaces to explode while driving and Valencia came out willing that they did not exist, their two lines of four folded down while waiting for a robbery to execute the transitions in search of Ferran Torres or Rodrigo. Danger.

Madrid's, on the other hand, was scarce initially, despite his dominance with the ball. Hazard and Carvajal barely reached clear goal situations in the first half, two heads-up with Cillessen won by the Dutchman. Difficulties caused Zidane's men to opt for long throws, especially by Kroos and Casemiro.

For Valencia, the confusion of others, neither a 4-3-3 nor a 4-4-2, was a mine in the first half. He was solid in defense, where a finding stands out, the young Guillamón, 19, a center-back who draws attention for his serenity, and hurtful in attack. Firm Kondogbia and Parejo in the pulse of the media in front of Casemiro, Carlos Soler raised the periscope whenever he had the opportunity. He looked insistently for Ferran Torres on the right, while Gayá, deep, hurried the left. But the real threat was with Rodrigo, a footballer who has a key quality in a striker: he never doubts. He does everything with determination and conviction, and loads his leg anywhere.

The first time he found himself empowered after a counter, he crossed outside of Courtois's span and only the wood avoided the goal. The second time, he marked his progression in the area to Carlos Soler and collected the pass to reach the net. Sánchez Martínez pointed to the center, nobody protested, but the VAR asked the referee to review the play, due to the possibility that the position of a teammate, offside, could be interpreted as intervening in the action, despite not touching the ball . That's how it went. A very, very fine decision.

Zidane made no changes at the break, not yet, but said things. Rather than change, the party had to be stirred. The pace of play increased. Valverde, until then out, shot hard. Valencia knew that something had changed and internalized it too much. Madrid smells fear like few others, because it is a predator. Hazard's goal came when the duel was already for the locals, with spaces that did not exist before. Asensio's entry, after a hug from Zidane, did not come as a contribution to the set, but when everything was at stake, since Valencia might not be the same, but it was in the game. Fate did the inexplicable and Benzema what only special footballers can explain. Everything fits in Madrid.

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