The ball is a narcotic if administered properly.
He did the
Villarreal
to leave Madrid almost white at the Bernabeu.
He missed the coup de grace, a risk always at this stage, where piety is not a virtue, it is a sin.
Courtois
avoided the first, the only one with the antidote against Lexatín, and
Rulli
a denouement seen so many times.
This time it was not that way, in a game that does not change anything for the leader, after the defeat of Atlético and the crisis in Barcelona.
Long possessions are a good refuge if you have a good footing. The
Villarreal
has. It was enough to dry up an erratic Madrid.
Ancelotti's
team
lost its vertigo,
Vinicius was
disheartened
, without the possibility of running as he likes. The high pressure did not pay off either due to the good transitions at risk of
Emery's
. Pau Torres likes to do it, even with some haircut. It is cold and the Euro has given it a range that it has internalized. At his side, Albiol puts the forcefulness. A good couple.
Vinicius despairs when he lacks food.
It has been difficult for him to reach this status and he does not want to lose it.
A yellow punished his impatience, for protesting Gil Manzano.
The dangers were not on their side, but in the opposite area, where Courtois emerged, twice before the break, to return to support Madrid.
It has happened more times this season, which means that there are things to improve behind, and Ancelotti knows it, but the integrity of the goalkeeper in the duels is better news in the positive than the imbalances in the negative.
In a big team, a goalkeeper who decides actions is as much as a scorer, title keys.
And again ... Courtois
The Belgian goalkeeper deployed like a low-flying condor to stop Danjuma's deliberate launch, who had found Madrid's Achilles heel on the left. On that side, the white right, Ancelotti decided to place Valverde as a side. A mistake. The Uruguayan may be an option for that position in a defense of five, as
Zidane
occasionally did
, but in a line of four he does not have the necessary dynamics, nor the reaction in the cut.
Nacho
, on the other hand, appeared on the left, which is perhaps his most uncomfortable position of all those he can occupy in defense. Along that lane he faced Yeremi Pino, a devil, very fast and loaded with bad intentions for those who face him. For their own, they are blessed. A slip thwarted his cut in the goal waiting room. In that band, in addition, Foyth was unfolded, a side that grows in Villarreal, deep and aggressive. Faced with the push of the two footballers, the lack of help from Vinicius was an ordeal for Nacho.
The danger, then, was from Villarreal against a Madrid that re-aligned
Asensio
with Rodrygo, Vinicius and Benzema, but without finding the dynamics they need, without spaces or speed in the ball transitions. A possible penalty, from Albiol on Nacho, was the most dangerous thing he could hold on to in the first half.
Gil Manzano
did not interpret it in the same way. The VAR, either.
Something had to do Ancelotti and Emery had little to do, except to score, for which he had chosen Alcácer, after his good comeback as a starter against Elche. The tactical game, until then, had been won by the Basque. The Italian called
Camavinga
, who has already become an agitator for Madrid. The entry of the French, after the break, was not like that of other times, imprecise in the passes. His departure caused effervescence, but the ball returned the game to where it was before going to the locker room. Also the danger, in the area of Courtois, again in its place in front of Danjuma.
Pau Torres
He did not reach the auction and the butterflies became flies in Emery's stomach, who will hardly have similar chances of winning at Madrid's home, to which Hazard, who left the bank, did not give the expected bite on a gray day for Benzema .
The French have earned the right to have them.
The Belgian has the obligation to offer them.
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