With
Sergio Ramos
in the stands and in the limbo of an uncertain future, Madrid falls into the black hole left by the captain in the area.
The noise of the VAR, present again in the defeat against Levante, is only like the fog, better not to be distracted.
Madrid wonders how tomorrow can be without the cacique, but the answers that the ball returns do not reassure him.
They disturb him.
Florentino
does not respond in a time in which everything is concerns.
Ramos's shadow weighs down
Militao's
ankles
and he discovers that
Varane
carries a saber but not a sword.
There is no Madrid that is remembered without a sword, nor is there a League that can be fought without defense.
Atlético has it.
Militao was defeated by fear without wanting to, even without the will to touch
Sergio León
.
His body did it and left, sunk and VAR through, when the game had barely started.
Another began, different and torturous for Madrid, despite getting ahead on the scoreboard.
His problems were always in the same place.
Zidane
, through
Bettoni's
hand
, had also decided the return of
Odriozola
to the right in a line where problems accumulate.
At first, he had a shared indecision with
Courtois
.
Bad omen for Madrid.
The action of the expulsion of Militao also forced Madrid to do the same: run backwards.
A send to space for Sergio León found the Brazilian at a disadvantage, due to his poor measurement.
The Levante striker, skillful, crossed the front in his career and the single contact brought him to the ground.
In inferiority, Bettoni saved the changes for later and sent
Casemiro
in relief work to the defense.
Without the ball, he was central.
In the offensive phase, he joined the attack.
He was a titan, the only one who sustained his own, but the team needs him elsewhere.
The recomposition forced
Asensio
and
Hazard
to defensive efforts
on the wings.
The Belgian is not used to it.
Hazard entered the game with a hopeful change of pace to yield to
Benzema
and cause the Levante goalkeeper to stop, but playing so many minutes without the ball took him out of the dynamics he needs.
The center that caused
Morales to
tie
was soft.
He was the first substituted, in his line.
Oddly enough, playing with one less footballer could cause a good change of intentions for Madrid, by giving initiative to Levante and waiting to project against them in spaces.
At the first, he struck out.
After a Levante attack,
Kroos
gave Asensio a magical pass with the outside.
The Spaniard did what he knows how to do, he drove, reached the area and crossed the ball into the net.
In the action, Asensio showed the facets of his powers: physical exuberance and technical subtlety.
At the beginning of the play, however, there could have been a foul in
Mendy's
area
on
Melero
, when he jumped with an open elbow and hit the Levante footballer.
The VAR did not estimate it.
Had he done so, it would have been a penalty.
There have been many changes of judgment regarding these actions, but common sense says that a maximum penalty should merit more clarity.
Vinicius' penalty (with VAR)
The goal delved into a favorable situation for the whites, but Madrid did not know how to take advantage of it, from more to less Hazard and Benzema off.
Odriozola's
riding
, which runs better than he just finished, and Asensio's attempts were not enough.
Levante also prefers the counterattack, but they knew how to progress, reach the area with many people and start in the good hands of Courtois, better under the sticks than on excursions away from their line.
A double stop to
Roger
stopped Levante's first attempts, although the Belgian goalkeeper had the best in store for the wall.
The tie was actually due to the path of the game and corresponded to 'Commander' Morales, infallible in the hit, technically impeccable.
Madrid needed to change things, not necessarily men, but Bettoni had no choice but to accept reality and withdraw Hazard to enter
Vinicius
.
The Brazilian, perhaps dragged by the insecurities of his substitution, wanted to do what he does not know, and defended
Clerc
to the limit
, on the line of his area.
Medié Jiménez saw him outside;
the VAR, inside.
It was the second of the corrections to the referee and both bad for Madrid.
The action was fine, fine, difficult to appreciate, but the controversy that was coming was watered by Courtois's hand, exalted in front of Roger.
It was not enough, because this forward always calls twice.
Almost from the same place, but on the move, he finally achieved what he insisted on to condemn Madrid, lost in the field and on the bench, from where they desperately tried to find a draw without those who have it the most, Benzema and Asensio, for bad that it was the day of the first.
Who also owns it and was not in the field, has other things that Madrid needs.
A time of decisions is coming, with sporting and economic urgencies.
Bad business.
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