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Thinking about what Zidane thinks is like entering a labyrinth. The best is in the unfathomable, a fact that condemns exercise to failure. However, failure is fine if it is daring. Let's go. When asked why the Frenchman lined up four forwards, the easy answers are the defensive weakness of Mallorca , the league's most scored team, and the fact that Madrid urgently needed victory to maintain its status as photo finish leader. There is another, however, more interpretive. It is to want to make compatible two footballers who play in the same position, Hazard and Vinicius, after reaching the conclusion that the Belgian must be a pillar of the team and that the Brazilian will be something different, a bomb, whatever they say. But that is thinking for ZZ, a coach of instincts, of sensations, of intangibles, and that, we said, is doomed to failure.

Hazard has appeared on the left but can play anywhere on the attacking front because he is an association footballer. Yesterday, he did it in the middle. A Vinicius will make you better, but you do not need, because it is able to ride and eliminate pieces by itself. If to that quality that he desperately interprets, always as if it were the last time, the wisdom of footballers with good eyesight is added, it will multiply its devastating effects on defenses. Vinicius still does not know, because the hunger for glory does not let him think, only run. Let it run.

Against Mallorca, he soon found the goal in this way, thanks to a measured pass resolved with the workings of a large footballer, as if his instep cradled a child. Minutes later, he made the Vaseline again, this time launched into space by Benzema . It hit the crossbar. Both actions gave reason to ZZ, who tries to isolate himself from the noise due to the controversies of the VAR around Madrid. It will be difficult for him, because the action of the first goal began after a loss in which Carvajal seemed to commit a foul on Dani Rodríguez . The VAR did not consider that it was clear enough to vary the interpretation made by Melero López. More noise.

The experiment led Madrid to line up 4-2-3-1, with Bale to the right of the second line and Benzema leading. French, however, is a free verse, not a classic 9. Always on the move, it greatly complicates the control of rivals. Very soon that Madrid attacked Reina with bombers , with two shots from Benzema and the Welshman, but, once ahead on the scoreboard, it did not achieve as much fruit as the offensive lineup suggested, not even on occasions. It was not until almost the hour that the goal that allowed Madrid to manage resources came, and it was not from an attacker, although it was from a player with the soul of a forward. It does not matter how big a footballer receives, but what he feels at every moment of a game. Sergio Ramos is the proof. He launched the foul as the best Messi , hard, settled, unstoppable.

Zidane immediately modified the experiment and removed Hazard to put Kroos on the field . He had already seen what he needed and it was time to get back in control. Isco then relieved a tired Modric , because opting for four starting attackers minimized resources in midfield, where, in addition, the suspended Casemiro was missing . Valverde still does not return as before from Covid, forcing the Croatian to an exaggerated display. In the end, the coach divided minutes between Mariano, Asensio and Brahim . In four games, all forwards have played. Indicative of their intentions.

The lack of local control allowed Mallorca to have more ball than expected and step on the front of the area, but without the necessary punch, except for two shots from Baba and Lago Júnior, to which Courtois responded. The goalkeeper is already a Madrid goalkeeper: little but decisive. The performance of the Japanese Kubo confirms his quality details but does not change the criteria that led him on loan from Valdebebas to Mallorca, where the news is in Luka Romero, the youngest rookie in the history of the League. They are 15 years old, less than Vinicius has, but with the same dreams. Let's dream about them.

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