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A stomp from Dani García to Marcelo paves the way to the Madrid League . A stomp from Sergio Ramos to Raúl García , just five minutes later, should have made it difficult, exposing him to spend the wild card that a conserve against Barcelona in its fight for the title. But since the designs of the VAR are inscrutable, Madrid escaped from San Mamés intact and undefiled, with their third consecutive 1-0, the second with a penalty goal, and offering that feeling that, since Zidane's training , only the White team is capable of offering: that, whatever happens, the final victory will always be theirs.

But it is not possible to ignore the arbitration question, even to relativize it, since it ended up being decisive in the final result. The comparative grievances are more evident the closer the facts in question are and between both stomps only five minutes passed. Although the worst was that the VAR claimed the presence of the referee to review the action and in the other he simply let the scene pass. There are teams that have returned badly from confinement, but none like the referee. Justice is based on the fact that two comparable offenses will receive the same punishment. For this reason, this Sunday there was none in San Mamés, placing an ugly asterisk on the white victory , which in passing cuts Athletic's good streak and makes it difficult for them to assault the European posts.

Facing Athletic's gala eleven , the same one that four days earlier had won solidly at Mestalla , Zidane presented a striking lineup. Without Varane and Hazard due to injury, the Frenchman also sacrificed Kroos and Vinicius to start with and arranged an attack with Rodrygo and Asensio tucking in the fireproof Benzema. Assuming that it was not a day of winks for the gallery, since this Sunday was a priori their thorniest challenge of what remains of the championship, the commitment to the Mallorcan and the Brazilian defines hierarchies of present and future. The Madrid attackers who have not been mentioned in this paragraph are more clear today than yesterday about their role in the coming Real Madrid.

It was Asensio, in his first tenure after his long ordeal, who was the most intoned in the first half without a clear dominator. From his boots, digging down the left wing, Madrid's two best chances were born, both wasted headlong by Benzema and Rodrygo . And, as soon as he started, he executed a direct foul that put Simon in trouble and, in the rebound, the still sleeping red and white defense.

The Majorcan was the certainty of a discontinuous Madrid, lazy in the pressure after a first quarter of an hour of dominance. In this way, he countered the waterspouts that Athletic has been playing in the last days, but he gave up continuing a tactic that was being effective. When Garitano's men recovered the ball, they did so far from danger zones and lacked the resources to put together a quick move that would worry the leader, beyond a header by Raúl García on Carvajal repelled by Courtois.

That changed over the minutes. Athletic, who lost Yeray to injury in the 20th minute, began to find Williams's unmarkings behind Ramos, much less secure in San Mamés than Militao. The problem for the locals is that it was not the day of their striker, incapable of even acceptably defining two occasions from hand to hand against Courtois . The linesman relieved the derision by raising his pennant twice. Both games were very fair, but there was no need to review them.

It seemed that Madrid was trying to trace after the break what was done in the first half. He did 10 or 15 initial minutes of enough wear, generating good chances for Modric and Benzema, to later lose his determination and make it easier for Athletic, while still subdued but with much more ease to mount a counterattack.

Then came the two plays that marked the match. Dani García stepped on Marcelo in the area and the referee, after checking him in the VAR, pointed out the penalty. Sergio Ramos, true to himself, wrote it down: he already has 22 consecutive hits. And just five minutes later, the white captain stepped on Raúl García at the other end of the field. No penalty, no review, nothing at all. Go on, go on. And everything continued without further ado until the end, in which there was some tangana than another, since there is no classic without piques and skirmishes. Nor without arbitration controversy. That is already being taken care of by the increasingly incomprehensible VAR.

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