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For
Real Madrid
, every day is
Easter Sunday
.
In this month of April,
Carlo Ancelotti
's team has died and lived so many times that his season cannot be understood from any other emotion than pure
suffering
.
Tonight,
he gave and took life from a League
that doesn't seem to want to let go of their boots.
He triumphed (2-3) in one of the most complicated places of what remained of his league trip and took a giant leap to touch the title.
Trying to continue the happy inertia of the last results in the League and the
Champions
League ,
Carletto
insisted on the system of four midfielders, with
Valverde
leaning to the right and
Camavinga
in
Casemiro
's place .
The idea came out backwards and it lasted
45 minutes
, the time it took for Sevilla to give excitement to the championship.
After a dominating start in possession, Madrid began to make mistakes that were inappropriate for the current moment of the course.
Martial
warned first
, with a shot close to the post by
Courtois
, Ancelotti's team protested a
possible handball by
Diego Carlos
in a jump with
Bonus
... And it was
1-0.
The whites fell asleep when the ball came out,
Papu Gómez
arrived before
Modric
to touch the ball and the Croatian knocked down the Argentine from the edge of the box.
Opportunity for
Rakitic
, who took advantage of a strange movement by
Militao
in the barrier, put the ball between the defenders, surprised Courtois and unleashed delirium in a
Pizjuán
who wanted to be the protagonist.
With no time to atone for his sins,
Militao
failed again.
He did not close well an unchecking by
Corona
, he entered the area, went ahead of Courtois and gave in so that
Lamela
made it 2-0 almost to an empty goal.
Five minutes of Madrid torture in which there were many reproaches, with an argument between Militao and
Modric
as an example.
Rodrygo for Camavinga, the key
The shipwreck was personified in the body of
Camavinga
, who
could have been expelled
for a foul on Martial after a new mistake by Militao when trying to cut a counterattack.
Cuadra Fernández
did not signal a foul, which would have been the second yellow card for the Frenchman.
The play was the turning point that
Ancelotti
needed to realize the problems of his team.
An overcrowded midfield where there was hardly any space and the obvious need to find free meters.
Camavinga began to understand that he was going to stay in the locker room.
After intermission, Carletto pulled the same solution as the day at Chelsea:
Rodrygo Goes
.
And it didn't fail.
Four minutes into the second half, a good combination between
Vinicius and Carvajal
down the left ended with a low cross from the Spaniard that Rodrygo, with that instinct and those spaces that Ancelotti was asking for, pushed into the net.
The goal gave wings to a more comfortable Madrid back to its eternal drawing,
4-3-3,
and hurt a too accelerated and physically squeezed Sevilla.
Lopetegui noticed it, who turned his eleven around, retired
Acuña
and Papu Gómez and gave more steel to the squad with
Gudelj and Augustinsson
.
Madrid, meanwhile, smelled blood and found more and more holes, always on their right side, with the appearances of
Rodrygo
.
In one of those actions, the Brazilian squared an intelligent diagonal that ended in a heel for
Benzema
, whose shot left a few centimeters from Bono's goal.
Accelerating towards the final stretch of the match and with Madrid more focused,
anxious not to give life to the championship
,
Rafa Mir
had a header completely alone in the Courtois area to make it 3-1, but it went high just before the most controversial play of the night.
In the 74th minute,
Lucas Vázquez
launched a cross from the bottom right, Modric was unable to finish off and the ball ended up being controlled by
Vinicius
, who volleyed Bono's goal without opposition.
The Brazilian was angrily celebrating the tie when Cuadra Fernández annulled the goal by handball.
From the
VAR
, the referee's teammates told him to go see the play on the screen and there he went.
The referee insisted on a rigorous evaluation of him and the Madrid bench went crazy.
Once again a hand in a Madrid-Seville
match, like Militao's last year, could be key in the development of the championship.
Enraged,
Madrid wanted more
and Nacho did justice to the Whites' attempts during the second half, scoring after a pass from behind by Carvajal.
It was pure winning momentum.
Ancelotti's men smelled the opportunity to eliminate a direct rival and did not accept a draw, with
Rodrygo
appearing again to score the winning goal.
The Brazilian, after a
brilliant heel from Vinicius
, found the bottom line and waited long enough to see
Benzema
, who after a dramatic pause kept the league under Madrid's feet, fifteen points above Sevilla.
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