Real Madrid activates the bells of the title against Osasuna in El Sadar

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The impassive Italian feels different.

He doesn't express it, eyebrows up and calm.

But he shows it with his decisions, which are the sneaks of thought.

Ancelotti feels like a champion, something that hadn't happened before in Seville, where the Whites played the best game this season, and that's why he decides to manage the resources.

There is a week left to play again, no less than in Manchester, but in El Sadar it was allowed to give rest to pillars of the team, such as

,

or

, and improvise a line in the center of the field without any of the starters.

Ceballos and Camavinga complied so that the trend would not change, the rise of Madrid and the victory, with the hope that other things would change for them.

The chimes of a champion begin who, before the Champions League, only wonders about Alaba's injury and looks askance at Benzema, elusive at the penalty spot.

El Sadar is not a field for dilettantes, no matter who plays.

It has always been that way,

or

are waiting for you like, now,

and

.

If you enter with your eyes in the sky, you die.

Madrid suffered from that start to end up as dominant as in Seville, with Vinicius' tip, a few minutes are enough, and Lucas Vázquez's goal.

Neither

hit nor did

reach a tense and deadly center of the Chimy, a devil that is everywhere, tailor-made for any team that paints its face with war paint.

For being in everything, he was even in the penalty, by hand, which Benzema would miss at the beginning of the second half.

It was his second consecutive error from 11 meters, after missing the third penalty against Celta.

Another failure of the French would come in the same fate.

Three out of three.

Nothing catastrophic in the game, won by Madrid, nor in the race for the title, but the Frenchman has to finish and remove ghosts as soon as possible.

What comes will not give so many opportunities.

Rodrygo

was the player who caused the two penalties with his forays into the area.

The Brazilian, also key in Sánchez Pizjuán's comeback, has become a joker for Ancelotti.

He always liked the Italian.

Although Vinicius is ahead, Hazard or Bale never were, not even supporting actors in this title that only remains to sing it.

Accounts are made while watching how Barça rides on a saw tooth with its contradictions in tow.

Piqué's weigh theirs.

Vinicius' gift

Rodrygo was precisely the first to respond to Osasuna's initial attacks.

Herrera stopped, who would not stop anything as difficult as on the wall.

Almost immediately, when Madrid had failed to dominate the game, Ancelotti's team benefited from strategic action.

opened up on the wing for Benzema to look for Alaba in the box.

Herrera repelled the first shot, but not the second.

Not even the goal stabilized Madrid, because immediately, in the following minute, an action with similar vertices but more distance returned the tables.

, a great midfielder, sent Chimy and his center closed it in the

net .

Only after that exchange did Madrid begin to rule with a leading role that is interesting.

It was that of Ceballos and

.

One has not enjoyed the trust of the coaches since he arrived.

The other has not had time to adapt.

Camavinga has the impetus of his youth and the characteristics of a flying midfielder.

To play, instead, he has to reply to

.

In El Sadar was where he did it with more poise, always in his place.

He also participated in the action of the second goal, by launching Ceballos in a band.

hunted down his rejection

.

The goal makes the Mallorcan different.

Madrid's control grew in a second half that reminded moments of Sánchez Pizjuán.

It ends like a shot when the course limits the forces.

The last shots were from

, launched in his few minutes.

The first failed, the second was given to

.

The bells ring.

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