Benzema's
movements
are not always those of a footballer.
Sometimes he has things of a dancer, like the day he took ballet steps on the lime of the already demolished Calderón, and other times of a swordsman, when he turned on himself to find the thrust.
He did it in the Celta area to open a match of alternatives: 'Touché !!'
The French are sharpened by the years to make him the goalless striker who scores the most goals, at the head of a Madrid that does not support an army, but a squad with a lot of work.
They are Karim and the three musketeers.
The Frenchman makes the difference as, one step back,
Modric, Kroos and Casemiro
achieve it
.
The column is prolonged by
Sergio Ramos
and
Courtois
, although the captain's past absences, repeated in Balaídos by a blow, did not substantially change the performance of a Madrid that is sustained by the combination of quality and trade of those in their thirties.
A blessing and a problem for a club that had a different renewal policy from that age on.
The 30 from before are not the ones from now.
At 33, Benzema is the proof.
Lean as if escaping from an
El Greco
altarpiece
, it has the wisdom and calm that only time offers, but without losing speed.
The way he scored both goals in Balaídos shows it.
The second is simpler than the first, in both the important thing was precision and placement in the definition.
In both he received from Kroos and in both Celta was wrong.
First, because of
Araujo's
step forward
that enabled Benzema's position in the area at the worst moment;
later, due to the loss of
Tapia
, who had received a very compromised ball in forbidden terrain for juggling.
Two goals in half an hour that rewarded the integrity with which Madrid started, authoritarian with the ball and very high pressure, but they represented an exaggerated return for the volume of occasions: two out of three.
In the third, Vinicius did not expect a cross that Benzema took the ball out in his last breath.
After the tests with three centrals, Zidane not only returned to the line of four, perhaps due to the absence of Sergio Ramos, but to 4-4-2, with
Valverde
as the fourth midfielder and Modric closer to the area, where everything who decides can be deadly.
Asensio
was the one sacrificed, but also the only change, and that is that there is little else, to find the goal of the hat and close the act.
Madrid managed from the beginning to disconnect Celta, who also tried high pressure, although to no avail, with great confidence from
Zidane's
team
, despite the wind, football's greatest enemy.
Tapia, as the only pivot, was not able to balance the game in the midfield and
Aspas
started as a castaway.
The best that could happen to Celta was
Denis Suárez
, who found an opportunity to change the game on set pieces.
Santi Mina
took advantage of Madrid's lack of brand and prolonged the parable, alone, to beat
Courtois
and change the trend.
The return after the break confirmed it, with a Celta who planted himself on the rival's land and a Madrid waiting for the cons.
Aspas appeared after the hour, in a launch that Courtois repelled, and
Vinicius
rode to the end but his center did not keep up with Benzema.
Celta lost their best minutes to achieve the equalizer, but the expectation did not decrease in a hectic and rougher match.
Melero López
pointed out a very controversial lack of Modric in front of the crescent of the area.
Aspas himself threw the stick after
Casemiro's
bangs
deflected it just enough.
Musketeer for everything, from start to finish, shortly before the
white
D'Artagnan
offered Asensio the outcome and kept the banner upright also in the League.
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