• Chronicle.Asensio liquidates an exemplary Granada

  • Opinion.The great white pragmatism, by Julián Ruiz

So long in the insignificance could not be tolerable for Marco Asensio, who ended a streak of

19 games without scoring and assisting

with Madrid.

One month after turning 25, in a key season for his future, the Spaniard cannot afford another similar statistic.

He may have the confidence of Zidane, who only left him without minutes in Milan, but he himself knows that he needs a step forward from starting.

Because in LaLiga he has only trained five times from the start.

Rodrygo's

muscle injury

may clear the way somewhat for the 11th, which in 2020 still has the bullet from next Wednesday at the Martínez Valero.

Against Elche we will have to wait again for

Eden Hazard

, who did not have a single minute in that very busy final stage.

Actually,

Zinedine Zidane did

n't even give him a chance to warm up.

«I have not considered opportune that it played, because it was a complicated party.

I didn't want to risk him.

It's fine, but we're going to go little by little, "the coach justified himself.

It was not going to be so easy to take away the joy of a sixth consecutive victory.

With that great run of results, the analysis of the game takes a backseat for Zizou.

«The first part was complicated, but the second, much better, pressing and recovering balls, winning more duels.

That's when we made the merits to win, "concluded the French coach, submitted for many minutes to a Granada" worked very hard ", who held his intense pressure line very high.

Benzema's streak

Diego Martínez's

aggressive plan

handcuffed Madrid and could still be crowned with success, if

Martínez Munuera

had decreed a penalty with Casemiro's grab on

Yangel Herrera

.

Oblivious to the VAR diatribes, Zidane opts for its utilitarian solutions.

Especially when it comes to rotations, which were a hallmark of the house until recently.

Efforts continue to accumulate now on the backs of Sergio

Ramos

, Ferland

Mendy

,

Casemiro

, Toni

Kroos

or Karim

Benzema

, but the head of sports seems completely oblivious to these banalities.

When a journalist asked him about it, he replied very angrily.

"You are amazing.

You always go for the same thing, so I repeat the same thing, nothing happens ».

Another of the patterns that are repeated in this Madrid is the scoring facility of such antagonistic types as Casemiro and Benzema.

Against Granada, the midfielder scored for the third consecutive day in Valdebebas, while number '9' consolidated his fabulous streak: four goals in the last three league games.

Much more discreet than recently,

Toni Kroos

could at least savor his 200th match in the white jersey.

Without the company of

Luka Modric

, the precision of his metronome was not as high as in recent times.

In any case, he is already the second German with the most games for Madrid.

And in the coming weeks he will surpass the record of the legendary

Uli Stielike

(212).

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