• Chronicle Benzema saves Madrid from another torment in Valdebebas

Karim Benzema

does not leave the

Real Madrid

warm-up

until he is convinced.

He stands up front, lands the ball on the ground, takes several steps back, heeling to the left and fouls

Altube and Lunin

in the preview of each match.

Goal stuck to the post, bad shot, great goal from his teammate's right squad ... It is the 'modus operandi' of each preparation of the French striker before playing.

When his aim seems correct enough, he escorts his teammates into the locker room tunnel.

So every afternoon.

Against Elche, Karim Benzema seemed somewhat desperate.

The scheme with five defenders and two forwards due to

Zinedine Zidane's

rotations

forced him to look for alternatives other than what he used to find on the pitch.

He had

Vinicius

next to him, but too close, and

Fede Valverde

on the right.

Strange.

There was not

Kroos

, substitute for the fourth time this year, nor Modric, in his fifth time on the bench.

The '9' of Madrid, as always, came down to receive and hit

Isco and Mendy

on the left, but did not find spaces, neither did Madrid.

Some gesture here, another regret there ... If Benzema does not flow the team either.

And it showed.

In the band,

Zidane debated with Bettoni

, his second, and screamed like never before.

"

Up Fede!", "Go Lucas!".

In a break in the first half, when Madrid was at its worst, the coach took the opportunity to chat with Valverde, Nacho and Vinicius and specify their positions in the field.

The French insisted on verticality and everything sounded like a test thinking about Atalanta, a duel in which Casemiro will not be.

'Zizou' saved his greatest voices for Mendy, who had one of his worst encounters as a Madrid player.

"Ferland!", He heard all Di Stéfano in a bad pressure from the side.

Zidane was writhing in gestures

due to the mistake of his compatriot.

"What a late you are!"

After the break came a slight white improvement and the

possible penalty on Sergio Ramos

, back on the field after almost two months off due to a left knee meniscus injury.

In a corner, Marcone grabbed the Madrid captain with his arm and prevented him from finishing, but neither referee

Figueroa Vázquez

on the pitch nor

Soto Grado

in the VAR considered it to be the maximum penalty.

"I'm just going to the ball!"

Ramos yelled at the referee.

The Madrid center-back insisted on his protests, waiting as a center forward for the VAR's decision, but returned to the defense shaking his head when it was decided that there was no penalty.

Minutes later another possible penalty came to Elche, in which Figueroa signaled offside, and the goal from Alicante, also protested at Di Stéfano for a possible foul on Casemiro.

"What a late you are!"

Carvajal shouted at the referee from the stands.

The voice of the white side was the only one that sounded in a stadium not used to comebacks.

Madrid, until this afternoon, had never turned a match at Di Stéfano.

The silence that prevailed in the last minutes, with a 1-1 draw after Benzema's first goal, was the

greatest example of how tepid the atmosphere is in Valdebebas

.

Nothing to do with the final leg of the matches at the Bernabéu.

Between the respected box, the substitutes and the non-called of each team and the journalists, there is hardly any noise.

Ramos was one of the greatest entertainers of these moments while he was injured, and against Elche it was Carvajal's turn.

And, suddenly, Karim.

The French forward broke the silence of the White Sports City with a spectacular left-foot strike that decided the match and gave Di Stéfano his first comeback since a year ago he became the temporary 'home' of Madrid.

Zidane smiled in the band

, aware of the bitter drink they had avoided, and they got up to shout, now, all the substitutes meringues.

Benzema: "Happier than ever"

"

The teams that come here fall behind

and it is difficult for us," Benzema summed up after the game.

The Frenchman analyzed the bad first half made by the team: "The first half was a little strange, because we didn't have much movement. In the second half, with more enthusiasm, we scored the goals. It is important that the players who come in from the bench contribute things and that is what they have done. "

And he was ecstatic about the double: "The second is a beautiful goal, worth three points.

Happier than ever

."

For his part,

Rodrygo

, Benzema's assistant in the second goal and one of Madrid's best footballers in the second half, stressed that this is "what Madrid always has to do."

"We suffered, but we fought to the end.

We had patience and rhythm, as the coach tells us

. And now we are thinking about the Champions League."

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  • Alfredo Di Stéfano

  • Casemiro

  • Karim Benzema

  • Ferland mendy

  • Dani carvajal

  • Rodrygo Goes

  • Sergio Ramos

  • Luka modric

  • Real Madrid

  • Zinedine Zidane

  • Fede Valverde

  • Isco Alarcon

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