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  • El Sadar. Against the clock against 'Filomena': 40 people and lamps to play against Madrid

From this particular Odyssey, Madrid returns without a winner's face (0-0).

The tie does not taste like anything.

He can look for excuses in his incomprehensible wait on a plane, on Friday night in Barajas, while Filomena stopped the pulse of the capital, even in the pre-match uncertainties of a Sadar without atmosphere.

Not a card saw Osasuna.

That his plane had to take off as if it were Air Force One, a matter of State, goes beyond common sense, but this is football, and in football there are the explanations that you already know, even if you shut them up.

The League is compressed, with a leader who has plenty of games and a

Messi

who has fun again.

Osasuna is not a sparkling team, like Celta.

It is clay, thick, difficult to penetrate.

Madrid started with the will to dominate and a high pace of play, but domination never is if the score is not certified, and

Zidane's

team

did little, practically nothing, to alter it in the first period.

Just an approximation of

Modric

.

Osasuna, planted waiting, was closer, in a shot from

Oier

thanks to the stopped ball.

There were things that Zidane had to change, because Filomena could not be blamed for anything else.

Zidane knew what he was going to find.

Here we all know each other.

He chose

Hazard

as the starter, for the first time after the umpteenth return from injury, because he needed depth and overflow on the outside.

The question was whether the scenario, with the field at risk of freezing during the crash, was the right one for a footballer who does not leave doubts behind.

The Belgian connected with

Benzema

at the start and end, but as anyone would.

That is not enough, for that he did not come to Madrid.

He did it to eliminate pieces, mark and decide matches.

He arrived at 28 years old, he has turned 30 and the memories he has left, for now, are testimonial and not transcendent.

It has time but time is unforgiving.

Hazard's alignment, on the left, forced

Asensio

to change to

the right, after the resurrection of the Balearic in the matches he had played in the band that belongs to the Belgian.

The reality is that, yesterday, on the right it went from less to more but he was the first substituted, by

Valverde

.

Lucas Vázquez

was delayed to the side and the band generated very little offensive flow in the first half despite the nature of the players and the fact that their side was the cleanest due to the snow that accompanied the start of the crash.

Mendy

, on the opposite band, went deeper.

Goal annulled to Benzema

When Madrid loses a bit, the weight of the game ends up on

Modric out

of a sense of responsibility, but the Croatian cannot supply other things that Madrid needs to be hurtful.

Despite this, he was the only one who approached the dominions of

Sergio Herrera

with intentions

in a first period in which Osasuna began to believe in more than just defending himself.

Possession exceeded the 70% threshold for Madrid, but sterile.

When the midfielders pull the car, it is inevitable that the team progresses through the center, but this facilitates the defensive work of the rivals, and more specialists like Osasuna, always a team with a firm leg.

He needs to spread out on the wings, something that cost him a world in El Sadar, without Hazard back, or Asensio in continuity, until his lukewarm awakening in the second half.

Arrasate's men resisted retreating, which made it easier for Madrid to advance their defense, confident.

When Osasuna saw an opportunity to put it to the test, he did it with Calleri, a tank that had it with Sergio Ramos, author of a dangerous error, and the verticality of

Rubén García

.

With very little, he did more damage than Madrid in the first half.

The change could not be only in names.

First, the intentions had to be modified, and this is what ZZ had to insist on, because his team accelerated after leaving the locker room.

Asensio put Herrera to the test in minutes before leaving, scowling.

Many more passed until Hazard had a moment of light that led to

Benzema's

shot

, but offside.

It was the only one.

The Belgian left without pain or glory to leave Madrid without Modric, or Vinicius, in the hands of

Isco

and

Mariano

.

Only Zidane knows why.

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