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Zidane is an apostle of football, but he is not Santiago, he does not work miracles.
The most earthly could with the most divine Madrid, supported by exhausted players and tired young people, who remained standing, again thanks to Courtois, in Getafe (0-0), a place always rough for the guest, but incapable of threatening as does someone who aspires to a title.
Nothing is lost for the Whites, but now they are three points behind Atlético and with the feeling that they will have to decide where to fill the fuel tank, because they may not have it for all the routes.
To the absences, no less than nine, Zidane added two among the starters:
Kroos
and
Benzema
. Two sweet footballers in the recent stretch of the season, but two very punished pillars and those that need mature, at their point, in the only thing in which the team depends on itself to lift a title: the Champions League. In the League there are no big duels left, but there are many stones, as in Getafe, and there is a leader rearmed hours before. Giving breaks when more pieces are missing can be contradictory, but we do not know what only the coach knows about his players, about their condition. With regard to the ZZ itself, we do not know even more. It is part of their secret.
The recomposition involved a change of roles, such as placing
Rodrygo
as third midfielder or delaying
Modric
to the positional midfielder, a place, however, he knows, like almost everyone. The Croatian could play in any position. There are few players with such wisdom and professional performance. The
same thing happens to
Casemiro
, sanctioned, or Kroos, who stayed in the stands. Lucky for Madrid, who at the Coliseum set out to challenge her beyond reason. It did not succeed.
Odriozola
, the third winger due to the coach's preferences, appeared on the right;
Marcelo
, far from his best form, returned to the left, and
Chust
, the defender of the subsidiary, accompanied a central,
Militao
, who weeks ago was a discard and now is a pillar. Confidence can separate a depressed soccer player from an authoritarian one, as the Brazilian was against Barça or Liverpool. Yesterday, the same.
The imbalances, however, were inevitable and
Bordalás
turned over them
. Seldom will you be afforded such an opportunity. He sent his team to press and look for weakness in the back of the wings and the center of the Madrid area. At the first, however, the most unexpected of the class, Chust, responded to avoid the goal. Mata received, qualified against Courtois, settled down but the Madrid youth squad anticipated his shot. He was the one chosen by Zidane to plug Madrid's ground zero, where injuries and Covid have acted like a slap on a honeycomb. Another four players from the subsidiary joined ZZ, all on the bench, waiting for an emergency, since on Saturday they had played 90 minutes with Madrid B. Until the final stage, nothing. That's when he came in
Arribas
and made his debut in the first team
Blanco
, a midfielder, replacing Rodrygo.
A bath of reality
It was a change indicated to repair a broken midfield.
Due to this, it was not difficult for Getafe to reach the prelude to the occasions, which followed one another in the first half, led by
Oliveira
;
Mata
again
, who headed to the post, and
Aleñá
, drunk on the ball when he had done the most difficult against Marcelo.
The break did not change the dynamics, with a Getafe with more space, before which Courtois responded, with two extraordinary hands, against
Enes Ünal
and
Maksimovic
.
Angel's
departure further
increased the danger in the area.
Madrid, on the other hand, had barely opposed a faulty shot by
Mariano
that Timor saved.
The Hispanic-Dominican had a goal annulled for offside.
The ZZ team needed more depth, outside of
Asensio
or
Isco
, too far to filter balls.
The coach called Benzema, who has in his boots all the necessary seasonings, cinnamon and pepper, but the Frenchman is not a footballer with a single pattern, like
Vinicius
.
You need partners.
In the Coliseum they were not or they were too far away, while receiving a reality bath.
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