This resurrection of Madrid, which passes in four consecutive victories, three in the League, from purgatory to the provisional leadership of the League, has a lot to do with the foot of

Kroos

and the head of

Benzema

.

Not only, of course, in an effort of concentration and choral play, but the reality is that when a midfielder changes, many more things do, and when a 'nine' ends as a 'nine', most are consumed.

It is as if the strings of a puppet are unraveling.

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Kroos is not just another midfielder, but a midfielder adapted for service needs, a fact that implies imperfections, mistakes without the ball, but which increases Madrid's offensive options when he can take steps forward, as happened against an Athletic in inferiority due to his clumsiness .

The goal from Kroos, the son of precision, rewards the great contribution of the German at the moment his team needed him most.

The same happens with Benzema, who adds to his dance and to his 'espaldinha' the strength in his head.

Madrid owes the Champions League to him and, today, this shared leadership, at least for a few hours.

The third, also from the French, came in a crazy outcome, as a reply to the stop at the limit of Courtois.

The first goal, from the German, knocked down a punished defense when he was already thinking of restoring at half-time.

The first of the Frenchman knocked her out definitively after Athletic rebuilt with great merit.

Madrid, you know, always calls twice, and more if you smell the blood, as it happened in Valdebebas.

Athletic played with a hemorrhage due to the expulsion of

Raúl García

after seeing two yellow cards before the quarter hour.

If there is a footballer who represents aggressiveness in the game, not violence, it is the Navarrese.

It always scratches.

But aggressiveness must be managed.

After seeing the first card, the entrance to Kroos was stupid, and more in the front of the Madrid area, without the action representing any danger for Athletic.

The fact that the play followed a protest by his teammates about the fall of

Williams

, pushed by

Carvajal

in the area, does not justify it.

The VAR did not consider that it was enough to rectify

Gil Manzano's

appreciation

, perhaps because Williams was able to finish the play.

Raúl García withdrew with a face of helplessness.

Of

Gaizka Garitano

was poker.

In those 13 minutes, he had seen his players press high and bother the staging of Madrid, wanting to play face to face, in the open field.

The expulsion changed the plans, because forces had to be administered.

Athletic withdrew, went on to form a 4-4-1 and the pressure on Madrid's field disappeared.

Those of

Zidane

had space to advance and they took advantage of it, although without facilities to create danger.

The Athletic area is a place where they have arguments to become strong, with Íñigo

Martínez and Yeray.

Unai Simón

, despite the recent string of errors that have followed his international debut, has great authority in his area, be it due to reflexes or passing game.

He showed it in a shot on his nose from

Vinicius

.

Moments later it was

Valverde

who finished very close to the goal, but the ball went out.

The two actions anticipated Kroos's goal, a low, powerful and precise shot, against an Athletic already totally dominated.

As he waited for the bell, he heard the German's percussion, like the firing of a Mauser.

In the situation in which Garitano found himself, with one goal less, one less footballer and against a superior team, the coaches usually maintain the endurance plan to make the game long and wait for a chance.

It is the conservative treatment.

Avoid indentations but rarely bear fruit.

Garitano opted for risk and surprise.

Madrid accused him, relaxed by believing that Athletic would fall by themselves.

A wall between

Ander Capa

and

De Marcos was

enough to equalize the score.

So yes, Athletic returned to retreat, but the resistance, in a more than worthy match given the circumstances, did not come to survive, despite the last chance taken by Courtois.

Asensio

, one of ZZ's changes with

Isco

, took a corner backwards, dislodged the defense and the center back, from

Carvajal

, found Benzema, implacable to drive Madrid twice, in need of the scoreboard and In the final frenzy

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