A Christmas Carol: the heroic Real Madrid ravaged by the covid brings down CSKA

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The game that never had to be played took place at the WiZink and was, unexpectedly, a night to remember.

A heroism at the gates of Christmas, six professionals and three kids showing pride, a Real Madrid of men and boys knocking down no less than CSKA, making anyone feel proud.

Well, instead of embarrassment, there was emotion.

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Two of the largest teams in Europe, 18 continental titles face to face, were going to settle a crazy and unequal fight in the middle of a wave of COVID infections. A walk for CSKA could be predicted and it was a Russian mockery: Real Madrid faced 10 casualties and three 17-year-olds who had not even debuted. The spectacle, absurd a priori, was going to be difficult to forget.

First it had been

, on Sunday

. After the match in Murcia,

tested positive and during the week the dribbling continued (

...) until a few hours before the appointment against CSKA, when

joined the casualty list (

are injured). Also at the beginning of the week the Euroleague postponed the Zalgiris-Armani Milan, due to the wave of infections in the Italian team, the last white rival in Europe ...

But nobody thought it appropriate to cancel the match in which a clash as classic as a Madrid-CSKA was becoming.

Nobody cared that the whites were planted with six players from the first team, forcing even a

who could not finish in Murcia.

The club itself had registered youth squad

during the week

, to meet the eight necessary so that it was not canceled.

The other two boys called up were

, Usman's brother.

They will never forget this Thursday in December.

Madrid-Joventut postponed

Even the Endesa League, a while before, postponed Madrid's next game, on Monday in Badalona. How to continue like this? Who was winning with the Palace show? Beyond the result, the irresponsibility, the danger for a CSKA against a rival in which the virus was rampant or for the Madrid players themselves who were also exposed to a physical overexertion of the healthy totally inadvisable.

But the forward flight did not turn out as expected. Because in sport the logical thing is not always imposed.

Madrid

(four out of four with Laso's assistant) stood with a forced quintet made up of the healthy and a promise:

. And, in a marvelous mirage, in a show of enormous competitiveness, the whites have already surprised CSKA with a kick start, an 11-0 that lasted to 24-10 to rub their eyes. Tavares led a group of kids who stood up to the Muscovite ogre.

In the second quarter logic prevailed, that of exhaustion, that of rotations with the worthy Klavzar or Baba Miller, boys like pearls yet to be polished, especially physically compared to the powerful

. CSKA got into the duel, although all were doubts, as if amazed at the panorama. The heroic local resistance was not able to break the night, even after returning from the changing rooms, which was planted in the final act still with an advantage. And with breath.

The offensive rebound, which has so much to do with energy, was already a headache for Madrid.

But, surprisingly, he was still in the gap, more with the first triple of seven attempts by

or with the second by Klavzar, another Slovenian without complexes (62-55, min. 32).

Another one from Llull pushed

's men to the limit , paralyzed by an already exhausted rival.

That verged on the ridiculous in the final minutes, where Williams-Goss dressed as a superhero, with three baskets of self-love to certify the amazing, with a great game to vindicate himself.

A miracle for Christmas.

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