Madrid receives a new lung and defeats Athletic in San Mamés

• Classification First Division

• Distressing Madridista rehabilitation opinion

Open in channel was Madrid like a badly injured man on the emergency stretcher.

In this situation, decisions are vital.

At the Estadio de la Cerámica, those of Ancelotti were to give

, someone who had passed through Madrid as a sunny Sunday passes through the Castellana.

Next to the midfielder,

entered and it was as if that dying Madrid received a lung.

San Mamés, the scene of a big game, certified that the transplant worked to reach the feet of

and

alive .

Quality without oxygen dies.

In two places marked in red, Madrid has scared off the crisis with an appeal to history and another to good sense, and thus survive in the Cup and League.

No matter how hierarchical Ancelotti is, you cannot live with your back to the bench.

Ceballos entered on the wrong foot with

and, through a transfer, he had not been able to fix it with the Italian.

But no one doubts that the Andalusian has a good footing.

It is not the first time that this type of player, more prone to long possessions, has problems adapting to Madrid, to which his DNA asks for vertigo.

It is possible that the motivation of the Andalusian in the past was not necessary, but putting crosses to quality is foolish.

Now it is different.

In the last stretch in Villarreal and in San Mamés, Ceballos was fundamental, in a midfield without any member of the trio of kings.

Far away and

, Kroos and Modric stayed on the bench.

were his companions.

Better the Frenchman a step back, where he takes measurements well.

A risk experiment in a place that is always very demanding due to the intensity of Athletic and the speed in the transitions that the Williams brothers conclude.

Nico continually threatened, as in a shot that was centimeters from the goal.

Athletic always pushes at the start of each half.

The roar of a faithful stand like few predisposes.

, one of the players incorporated by

, is another of Lezama's interesting appearances, like the consolidated

.

Two shots brought the first one closer to

, especially on set pieces.

Athletic arrived, but something more than

's imagination was missing in the process.

The threat did not take Madrid out of its place, aware of where it was and what it wanted.

It started the same way it ended in Villarreal, tense, with Nacho on the side.

The duel responded to what he expected;

their players, too.

Vinicius

gave the first start to equalize the clash for a band in which he was with

, a bone.

It is not easy to get around the Athletic veteran, an example for those who arrive.

The action was like a warning for Madrid to lean the offensive game to the left, although it did not last long.

The best would come from the opposite profile.

He is a more positional defender, with less offensive travel, but he understood very well Ceballos' changes in orientation to provide support on arrivals.

This time he had more help than usual from Asensio, with a defensive attitude, in withdrawals, rarely seen in the Balearic Islands.

Well if he intends to once and for all change that irregular existence, of moments, that he has had in Madrid.

He awaits renewal or departure.

When he left his place to Modric, in the last stretch of the match, he received a gesture of complicity from the coach.

The match, with an overturned and threatening Athletic, needed something else.

He did not find it, despite the departure of a fourth midfielder, and ended up in a hurry, too close to his goalkeeper, but on his feet while he protected his booty.

Kroos also took over from an exhausted Ceballos to leave the sentence with a strike as elegant and deadly as the one Benzema had achieved.

Asensio was the recipient of a temperate cross from Valverde, precisely from the right.

The ball rained down on the second play and Benzema scored from behind and with a volley, a prodigy.

Without being in his finest moment, there is always a moment when he finds the brushes.

The low income allowed Madrid to maintain itself, although with difficulties in the outcome, in which Ernesto Valverde sought more spiciness with the departure of

Zárraga and Nico Williams were close to the goal.

The only time the ball touched the Madrid net was after a previous offside and a holy hand from Courtois, although it was not necessary, against an opponent who gave up the victory but nothing more.

He only lacked the foot of Benzema or Kroos.

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