• Chronicle. Madrid, the only Spanish to win in the Champions League thanks to Mendy's two-for-one: expulsion and goal

Four hours before the

Atalanta-Real Madrid Champions League

, the

Bergamo

wall

attended the only football match with spectators that was to be played yesterday in the city.

Some

teenagers

who had put their masks in their pockets were splitting up to start a duel on a lawn next to the road that goes up to

Citta Àlta

.

A few meters away, about 30 young people formed the stands.

Initial and almost final beep at the same time.

A police car took the curve, sirens on, and two officers got out to talk to them.

Hands in the air, some distant scream and youthful fright to avoid problems at home.

Problem solved.

A few hours later, in that chaotic surrealism that football produces too many times, thousands of Atalanta fans spread out for the kilometer from the start of Viale Giulio Cesare to

Gewiss Stadium

to encourage the arrival of their team.

"

Vaffanculo el Real

!" They shouted, beer in one hand, flare in the other and a mask in the throat.

The police, in the distance, watched hypertherr.

A hell without any meaning in the European epicenter of Covid-19, in the city that just yesterday honored the first patient who died due to the virus.

The

Lombardy

region

still suffers today from the virus: 43 deaths and more than 2,500 infections

in the area in the last 24 hours.

Isco, in the cupbearer disaster and the 4-1 of Mestalla

In those, Madrid arrived, under a

street Champions atmosphere

that minutes later gave way to the empty and cold Bergamo mousetrap, only broken by the fireworks prepared by the tifosi outside the stadium.

Without the support of the Madrid fans, it was

Zidane

who on Tuesday afternoon motivated his team with a small talk on the pitch.

In that group was

Isco Alarcón

, in one of his worst moments as a Real Madrid footballer.

The Andalusian had lost the coach's confidence and had not had good performances in his last games, being even surpassed in the rotation by the young

Arribas

.

Despite everything, Zidane, lover of the Andalusian during his first stage in Madrid despite the disagreements this season, gave him a place in the starting eleven in the most important match of the course.

The last two starts for Isco had been the cup defeat against Alcoyano, in January, and the 4-1 received at Mestalla at the end of November.

Statistically speaking it sounded bad.

The Spanish midfielder, also outside

of Luis Enrique's calls

, jumped to warm up, tapping the ball, confident.

He tried fouls with Asensio and nailed several in the squad.

More confidence, and until he had gasoline he was the best of Madrid, favored by the

prompt expulsion of Freuler

that Gasperini received with a "no, no, no!"

that was heard all over Bergamo.

Like the "let's go!"

of the white expedition after the

unexpected goal of Mendy

.

Zidane's laughs with the goal

With the right, from outside the area, to the surprise of a Zidane who laughed in the band: "It was a rehearsed action, but it was assumed that the play did not have to finish it," joked the Frenchman at a press conference.

"

I think he has even more strength with the right

than with the left, despite the fact that with his good leg he is more precise," explained the coach, happy with the result of a game that turned his face too soon but that his The team did not know how to specify: "We did not play well," he summarized, praising an Isco whom he claimed as his "player": "

His ownership was planned

.

They played with three centrals and we wanted Isco between the lines.

He has given everything.

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