Narration This is how we live the game
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To think about the Champions League is to lose the League. Madrid cannot be accused of doing it, but it is inevitable, human, to internalize the circumstances, what we have and what is coming.
Zidane's
team
was squeezed in the outcome against Betis, with accumulation of offensive resources, including
Hazard
, back in the rain, but, on the other hand, he did not start at point-blank range. On Tuesday, against Chelsea, it will be different. It's Champions. La Liga, for now, is moving away, waiting for the reply from Atlético and Barça. They know Madrid well and that is why they will try to bite into the wound.
Time has passed since their debut in La Liga, at Villarreal, but
Pellegrini's
teams
are recognizable as they mature. This Betis is one more, with a good foot, pause and acceleration, and an interesting pressure on the opponent's ball exit. It has enough.
Canales
knows how to put his speed at every moment: stay in the media or launch
Borja Iglesias
and
Emerson
.
Guarded
puts mortar where necessary and an interesting player appears,
Guido Rodríguez
. You have to follow it.
With his booklet he quickly took the ball in Valdebebas and made it very uncomfortable for Madrid to have it, with many difficulties to overcome the first line of Betic pressure. But the ball must be accompanied by bad intentions, not just good ones. Betis, very academic, was not very evil at the start, and that against Madrid is not a virtue, it is a sin. In the minutes in which the scene dominated,
Courtois
did not have to intervene
. Bad business. The Belgian would do it later.
Zidane did not make an interwar team, although he awaits the Chelsea battle, because he does not have enough resources, nor is it the moment, given the imminent outcome in both competitions. A slip like the one on Saturday can leave you out, but it was inevitable to think that in La Liga Madrid does not depend on itself and in the Champions League, yes. He is two shots from the final.
It is evident that this is in the heads of the footballers, to which was added the better tactical positioning of Betis. When those of ZZ could overcome it, the danger arrived at the area of
Bravo
, an old rocker of the confidence of Pellegrini, besides compatriot. At whatever speed, Madrid always spice up the games.
Benzema
carries all the spices in his luggage. First he took dance steps in the area and, immediately afterwards, he tested the Betis goalkeeper, safe below. Little more, hardly anything, had to do Bravo in the first period, which ended under the downpour. Madrid prowled in their preserve, with a high free kick by
Isco
, another by Benzema, an attempt by
Rodrygo
and a clearance on time by
Victor Ruiz
.
The return to the field was very different for everyone, opened with a shot to the crossbar by Rodrygo.
Zidane initially formed his team at 4-4-2, with the return of
Carvajal
, already as a starter,
Nacho
in the opposite band, as a good boy for everything, and Rodrygo and
Asensio
in the bands, who alternated until the first one came out. for
Vinicius
to enter
.
The return of the first is key for Madrid, but the repetition of injuries, the last one causing a loss of more than two months, does not allow us to see the Carvajal we know yet.
He was limited, without risking or being as deep as usual, which Madrid suffered.
Neither does
Modric
, who recovered urgently from his back problems, performed at his level.
Chelsea's duel needs the Croatian in full, so he left the field before the end.
Depleted or not, Modric makes no resignation.
In time, the transition to the goal of Betis' best action came to be hampered, started by
Lainez
, a guy with a future, on the right, with the process of Canales and the hand in hand that Courtois avoided against Panda Iglesias.
Emerson
had previously arrived in a second half more open to the exchange of blows for the needs of Madrid.
For that Vinicius entered the field of play and, then,
Marcelo
, with the return of the team to the three centrals.
The two intervened in a play that left the second in the lead up to the goal, but failed when he had everything in his favor.
Neither the entry of Hazard, finer, nor the VAR in a possible hand in the Betic area allowed Madrid to overcome a draw that is like a capitulation.
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