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There is more football in a feint with Luka

Modric's

hip

than in the 90 minutes of many La Liga games.

The Croatian honors the ball without having to touch it, because football is more thought than played and while the rest of the world struggles - like it or not, that's what they are going to Ipurua - he dances on the embers of the fierce contest that, as always, Eibar proposes.

And when he meets

Karim Benzema

, someone who, like him, understands war as a context and not as an end, Madrid rises above itself to be what history and heraldry force it to be.

His own physical condition is the only thing capable of limiting Modric's prodigious football.

Last night he lasted an hour, more with enough.

Already 35 years old, he has recovered a fullness that common sense suggested exhausted forever, putting it at the service of a Real Madrid in need of his clairvoyance and his mortar to finally activate the cruising speed that has resisted him in these initial three months competition.

With his victory last night in Ipurua, silk but also stowage, there are already five successes in a row for Zidane's, an apparently solid base on which to build a more profitable winter than the faltering autumn that ends today.

Perhaps Madrid can be criticized for almost always, its lack of punch and aim with which to take advantage of all its offensive flow.

He did not need it in front of an Eibar who he was able to massacre in the initial half hour and who later tried to climb up to his beard.

It has been two years since the white team learned with sticks that in Ipurua the shield does not win games.

After that tough 3-0 in the morning, a 0-4 came last year and a new win last night.

Zidane knows well that facing a

Mendilibar

team

is like plunging into a jungle infested with cobras, which respond to the movement of others by biting instantly.

When a Madrid player had the ball, he did it knowing that he would not have more than a second of margin to decide what to do with it.

A challenge that Zidane's men would be able to respond to, whose virtue last night was to make his players aware of what awaited them, if anyone was unaware.

No one can be blamed for saving a single race and that is always a cover story in a tailcoat outfit like white.

From there, it was the talent that made a hole in the meeting.

The first quarter of an hour for Madrid was a superb football exhibition commanded by Modric.

After six minutes, he determinedly led a counterattack that

Rodrygo

brightened with a pick pass to Benzema, who scored the first after an exquisite control.

Shortly after, the Croatian tried to repeat the play, but

Lucas Vázquez

could only take a corner.

And before reaching the 13th minute, he capped his lofty start to the match with a goal almost from the penalty spot, after Benzema danced on the baseline.

Ramos's hand

Madrid was a devastating and beautiful cyclone at the same time, taking advantage of all the risks that Eibar assumes every time he puts on his boots, increased this time by the defensive patches that Mendilibar had to do due to the numerous casualties he handled.

No one would have been surprised if Zidane's men reached the break with four or five goals -they canceled two for offside-, as they had plenty of chances to do so, but what happened instead is that Eibar cut distances, thanks to beautiful shot to the squad of

Kike García

.

The real drowning came to Madrid after the break, when fatigue began to limit Modric and spur an Eibar that had nothing to lose and whose curse in Ipurua - he has not won at home this year - is beginning to make it unbearable.

By bursting the revolution counter, Mendilibar's men proposed an exchange of blows that at times escaped Madrid's control, either due to lack of bellows or temperance.

Possibly both.

A

hand by Ramos

in the area that neither the referee nor the VAR believed was punishable added more spice to the final minutes, in which Madrid was limited to living off the rents and tame the gunmen's desire for rebellion.

Lucas Vázquez, already in the discount, finished eradicating them with the third goal.

Eibar had more faith than Zidane's, but they lacked talent.

They built and fanned the bonfire, but Modric danced on it.

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