"

There are two endings

."

Just over a fortnight ago,

Carlo Ancelotti

mumbled the importance of the matches against

Rayo Vallecano

and

Real Sociedad for the

League

title

.

Sevilla

, second classified, had just drawn

in

Cornellà

against

Espanyol

and fatigue from a

Europa League

that did not stop gave them a golden opportunity to stabilize the leadership.

Madrid won suffering in

Vallecas

(0-1) and offered one of their best performances of the season against the

txuri-urdin

(4-1).

Counting the 3-0 at home against

Alavés

, Ancelotti 's team had been able to win the three games held between the first leg and the second leg of the

Champions League

round of 16 against

PSG

.

A perfection always complicated at this point in the season.

Meanwhile, the group led by

Julen Lopetegui

beat

Betis

in the derby in their city and once again accumulated a setback by drawing in Vitoria, their second draw in just three days, moving eight points away from the head of the League and beating with difficulty

Dinamo Zagreb

in the

continental playoff.

On Wednesday, Madrid's historic comeback against

Mbappé

,

Messi and Neymar

put an end to one of the most important stages of the Madrid year.

On a physical level, and thanks to the direction of Sergeant

Antonio Pintus

, the Whites are flying at the end of the games.

Modric, Fede Valverde and Vinicius

were the players who covered the most kilometers against the French, mentally and physically overwhelming their rival and achieving a victory that keeps Madrid alive in their fetish competition and that forces them to think about the management of the squad.

april key

The

quarterfinals of

the Champions League will be on April 5-6 and 12-13.

A blink.

Madrid will visit

Vigo

on the weekend of April 3, will receive

Getafe

on the 10th and will travel to

Sánchez Pizjuán

, to a duel that can decide a large part of the domestic championship, on the 17th. Continental Tuesday or Wednesday is reserved for

Bayern, Liverpool , City, United or Atlético

,

Ajax or Benfica, Juventus or Villarreal and Lille or Chelsea

.

A shakeup of matches that will form a '

new' Tourmalet

.

Five in just 14 days

for which Ancelotti will need his backbone at 100%, the one made up mainly of:

Courtois, Militao, Alaba, Modric, Vinicius and Benzema

.

Madrid was able to beat PSG without

Mendy

or

Casemiro

and with

Kroos

knocked out, but do you have replacements to rest your five main names?

The options

In defense,

Lucas Vázquez and Carvajal

take turns on the side, accumulating 1,745 and 1,697 minutes each, and

Nacho

, with 1,650, acts as a wild card for the center and the left side of the defense, in case of injury or suspension of

Militao

( 3,444),

Alaba

(3,233) and

Mendy

(1,996).

A controlled situation in which

Carletto

is also including

Marcelo

(559) for the final stretch of the matches that are more or less controlled.

In the middle, the good performances of

Valverde

(1,709) and

Camavinga

(983) give reasons to combine them more regularly with the starting trio, very squeezed for much of the course.

Casemiro

(3,022),

Modric

(2,480) and

Kroos

(2,425) are among the seven outfield players with the most accumulated minutes.

The problem comes up front, where the outstanding season of

Vinicius

(3,109) and

Benzema

(2,800) and the offensive dependence that Madrid has on them,

16 goals and 13 assists for

the Brazilian and

30 and 12

for the Frenchman, has left them without options nor minutes to the second unit of the madridista attack.

There have only been changes on the far right, where

Asensio

(1,606) and

Rodrygo

(1,497) share relevance.

Eden Hazard

is

17th in the squad

in minutes (877, 278 in 2022) and, despite the fact that his level has been far from that of Vinicius, the lack of competitive rhythm can limit him when Ancelotti needs to rest the young Brazilian.

The Belgian

has not been a starter since January 23

against Elche and has gone three games in a row without taking the field.

Jovic

, for his part, has already added

five consecutive games without playing

a single second and has only played 152 minutes in 2022, 473 in the entire season.

Bale

, one of the last in discord in the rotation, started against Villarreal and played three minutes in Paris,

accumulating 77 in all of 2022

.

"He played against Villarreal because Benzema wasn't there, but now he is," Ancelotti specified a few days ago.

The statistical summary is that

between Hazard (13, Jovic (0) and Bale (3) they have played 16 minutes in the last month

, a fact that speaks perfectly of the extreme and logical dependence that Madrid has had on its starters and doubts about the level of this second unit."Everyone is available, so everyone can play. I don't see any tired player, so if I make changes it's because of the type of game and approach, not to give rest", he insisted on Sunday the Italian coach

When in doubt: backbone

.

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