• 3-1 at the Bernabéu Narrative and statistics

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Madrid continues in a state of grace.

A state of grace without cravings, brilliant but sober, although if they put a flan in front of it, it devours it.

Sevilla is, despite the anger etched in ink on the skin of its messianic coach.

It will not be because of appetite, that of the young people who want to be like

Karim Benzema

or

Luka Modric

, that of the substitutes who arrive to pass and score in minutes, and that of the Modrics who do not want to stop being substitutes.

It is the transmission belt of success in this Madrid for which cruising speed is the maximum speed.

Who does not adapt, does not survive.

Compete outward as well as inward.

The Croatian arrived in the area in this way to open the scoring after five minutes, in contrast to the tiresome running of his compatriot

Ivan Rakitic

, younger, on the other side.

Two footballers who are two lives, two teams, two realities.

The life of Madrid is the ideal life, because it has game, goal, money and stability, at the club and on the field.

None of those who should be, in theory, his rivals, can say the same.

Sevilla wanted to be last season, but the sales of

Lucas Ocampos

,

Diego Carlos

or

Jules Koundé

opened the crack in Lopetegui's ship, a great coach, but not a coach for the tides.

jorge sampaoli

He arrives to put it back together with the ball and the spirit, but at the moment he is not here to propose any of that at the Bernabéu.

Few teams like Sevilla had made Madrid suffer with tight duels, weighed down by their mistakes and by an approach that may be the path to reconstruction but not the best way to face Madrid today.

Sampaoli designed a team on the right foot, with players to have the ball and the intention of not handing it over.

For that, security is necessary and Sevilla still have too many doubts.

Madrid smells them like good predators.

That's why he raised the pressure in search of the error.

In five minutes,

Julen Lopetegui

's team made three .

In the third,

Vinicius

took advantage of

Gonzalo Montiel

.

The Brazilian progressed down the flank, stopped short and waited for the best pass option.

It was Modric, at the other end.

The ball came to him accompanied by a pen.

A darned defense

The scenario was therefore propitious for Madrid to withdraw and wait, but they did not stop looking for high pressure because it was a mine.

Fede Valverde

made a spout to

Alex Telles

, Vinicius lost control after being left alone against

Bono

and

David Alaba

was centimeters from the goal in a foul.

Whether in static attack, stealing or running, Madrid always took advantage over a darned defense with

Nemanja Gudelj

due to casualties.

It was the best.

Without the ball, this Sevilla made no sense, because it was not physically strong or powerful in transitions.

As in other games, Madrid lacked a decisive goal and, after the break, took a step back that Sampaoli's team knew how to take advantage of.

With Isco as a false nine and Óliver Torres, Sevilla was valued if they were associated, but also if the degree of intensity increased.

He did both without Sampaoli changing a single piece.

Something said in the booth.

The equalizing goal came, in fact, in the same way that he had conceded it but with the roles reversed.

It was this time Montiel who stole Vinicius at the start, advanced and shot for

Erik Lamela

to break free in the box.

He crossed the striker to beat

Thibaut Courtois

, who returned to the eleven after being discharged due to sciatica.

The second shot under the sticks, after one from Navas one minute before the break, was beaten, although few accounts can be asked of him in action.

On the other hand, Benzema was not present due to some inconvenience.

You have to watch them, and more so the Frenchman, who eagerly awaits the World Cup that bad companies denied him in the past.

A victory drum

Carlo Ancelotti

and the crowd would like this state of grace to be accompanied by more fruits, more goals.

Some of the best stretches of the game have not been accompanied by the deserved safety margin on the scoreboard.

The duel with Sevilla was another example, and a more dangerous example, due to the quality, in the small match that is the end of an open match.

Sampaoli opted for

Papu Gómez

, hard in the shot, and Ancelotti opted for

Lucas Vázquez

and

Marco Asensio

, depth and goal.

In the action following his departure, a robbery in the media was managed by Valverde and

Rodrygo

, and ended in Asensio, very fine in the long pass inside Vinicius.

The Brazilian hurried and saw Lucas arrive, to whom he offered the goal and the explosion of the Bernabéu, redoubled by the Madrid drum.

It is worn by Valverde, who finished the game lame, and it is a drum of victory.

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