• The show of the "phenomenon" Vinicius: Goal, dribbling and a surreal celebration 'preCovid' in the return of the public to the Bernabéu

  • Football returns to the Santiago Bernabéu "It's rare and fascinating"

The time away from the Bernabéu has been like the passage of puberty for

Vinicius

. The footballer, who was sobbed at night at the end of each dribble, did not return home. Another player did it, a man, just as vertical, faster if possible, but, above all, more determined and precise. The day that fans, back at their stadium, dreamed of seeing

Mbappé, they

found something they perhaps did not expect, a footballer they doubted, with a pattern similar to that of the French, although in a very different segment. For now. The future is inscrutable on the lawn, much more than the certainties that this Bernabéu already reveals in works, the skeleton of a temple from other times that Vinicius wants to be part of.

It's not the only one. Also

Benzema

, the natural leader of this Madrid already without

Cristiano

or

Sergio Ramos

, who took Madrid out of the situation that its defensive embarrassments led to, in a duel of alternatives with a Celta who has more than what the table says. Good old

Carlo Ancelotti

has a job there

. Also

Camavinga

, who jumps to his new stadium blessed by the goal. What to say about

Modric

, who defies the laws of nature and resists year after year. All of them, with the defects of the team in tow, leave this imperfect Madrid in the leadership. It was never really perfect, but it was a winner. It is.

The return to the Bernabéu found most of them ready, even

Hazard

, who during the first section showed the footballer that Madrid believed they signed, who was at Chelsea.

It was a combinative Madrid in attack, fast, with unchecked space and a high pace of play.

However, he needed to beat Celta a lot, seeing himself twice behind on the scoreboard due to his problems at the back.

If the attack was the head, the defense was the cross.

GARRAFAL ERRORS IN DEFENSE

In the first three league games, Celta had only been able to score one goal, from a penalty. In half an hour, just over a tenth of the time played until his arrival at the Bernabéu, he got two. The contrast, circumstances aside, was due to the facilities found in a Madrid of two realities: frantic in someone else's home, insecure in one's own. Ancelotti has known, until now, to look for the versatility of pieces that seemed fixed with

Zidane

, today in the stands. However, the team lacks the necessary defensive adjustments, beyond the level of footballers. Sergio Ramos is not there, it is true, but there are enough to avoid childhood mistakes.

The first one can be justified by the inexperienced, when

Miguel Gutiérrez

commits it

,

but in Madrid there is no possible justification. He looked for a ball inside, a recklessness, in the face of high pressure from Celta. The winger was the first link in a chain of minor errors, with

Casemiro

and

Nacho

not very forceful, but enough for

Santi Mina to

end up shaking the start with a whip in the area, just after three minutes. It was also down the left lane where

Hugo Mallo

advanced

into the open field until he served

Cervi

, who painted the goal in figure, by turning on himself, throwing the spur to the post and finishing off the right hand rebound.

Courtois

He followed the ball like you look at a carom on a pool table.

BENZEMA, LEADER AND 'NINE'

Between one goal and another, Celta suffered the unspeakable and gave up the first draw, from which he recovered, although he could no longer overcome the second, as soon as the second half started, despite the fact that the spaces appeared to the despair of the 'man-buoy ', Casemiro, in a game of swell.

The two equalized corresponded to Benzema, with shots in the place of the nine, either in arrival to receive from

Valverde

or from head to center by Miguel Gutiérrez, who did not sink the first error.

Quite the opposite.

If not, it is impossible to be a footballer for this team.

Celta believed the worst had happened in the first half, but giving up the second draw as soon as they returned from halftime changed the scene forever.

Vinicius then rode into the open field, turned in search of

Dituro

and killed him with gloves, delicate in definition, nothing to do with the run over shots.

It was a goal with Lexatin.

The Brazilian had time to spare, to hit the defense of a Celta in which neither

Solari

or

Nolito

, despite their attempts, gave a reply.

The day belonged to a Brazilian, capable of manufacturing a penalty in another cut and offering Benzema, the boss, a hat-trick to leave Madrid in the lead.

Mbappé's desire is a thing of the future.

The present is what Vinicius wants.

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