In a league that is like a fakir's pit, Madrid jumped on the embers of their injuries with
Harry Potter's
feet
, one loaned to
Benzema
, the other to
Kroos
.
Two guys who strike with the inside like a wand is waved, especially if the rival looks at it as if it were in an audience, not on a soccer field.
The best symptom that Valencia is a wasteland is not the game that it does not develop, but the null aggressiveness, well understood, that allowed Madrid one of the most comfortable acts in Valdebebas, together with the visit of the dying Getafe, also last week.
Two teams in the UVI to allow
Zidane
a new life
when the Champions League PA system is already heating up.
It is like cats.
Benzema's Achilles heel warned Madrid where theirs is: injuries.
The fright of the Frenchman made
Carvajal a
reality
, who returned to eleven with very good manners and lasted half an hour.
It broke alone.
A drama for a key footballer who suffers his fourth injury of the season.
Bad business.
There are so many, in general, that the club must ask itself questions about preparation.
For this reason, the breath stopped while Benzema doubted whether or not to continue in the first minutes, when he received an involuntary stomp in a dispute in the area.
Mariano began to warm up.
Fortunately, he returned to the bench and the Frenchman continued to find the position of striking in a counter.
He received from Kroos, observed two rivals in the path, raised the periscope and drew a parabola to the only place impossible for Jaume.
Alarming defensive passivity
The goalkeeper had complained about the ease that the Madridistas had found to reach shooting positions, after taking a shot from
Casemiro
with his foot.
In Benzema's goal, the merit of his hitting is clear, but it is true that, before it occurred, the defenders did not attack his position.
More alarming was the ease with which
Modric
,
Lucas Vázquez
and Kroos thought and touched in the area for the German to put the ball in the net.
Two goals that defined the victory in a first act turned into a monologue.
Until now, practically,
Courtois
did not have to intervene seriously
, to stop a shot from
Maxi
.
Javi Gracia
, in the box due to sanction, ordered changes at half-time and the big one was
Guedes
.
The game of the Portuguese, a player-franchise for Valencia, was a disaster.
Out of position and always with bad decisions, he did not give one.
The impression is that it is not only a problem of gambling, but of emotional balance.
This crazy Valencia is the ideal breeding ground for those things to happen.
There are more collective guilt than individual.
Return to 4-3-3 in Madrid
Little changed the course of the meeting, despite the changes and the words in the booth, with a comfortable and firm Madrid, anchored to the security offered by the Casemiro-Kroos-Modric axis.
They never lose the keys.
On the contrary, it was
Mendy
who found the way to the net, but after receiving offside, as rectified by the VAR.
Vinicius
intervened in the action
, warmer than he should.
Isco
and
Arribas
, a youth squad that ZZ likes, had minutes because Modric and Benzema must be kept in formaldehyde, and because, in this dynamic of absences, there is no possible rule out.
The loss of
Marcelo
, the return of Kroos, as well as Caravajal and
Lucas Vázquez
, who followed each other on the right side, led Zidane to return to the four defenders instead of the three central defenders that he had against Getafe.
Nacho
and
Varane
, more daring in the exit of the ball, were enough to add another victory without
Sergio Ramos
who improves his self-esteem, maintains the distances in the League and defines Madrid that will return to the Champions League, where he will need more than his magic feet .
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