Madrid leaves, before an inferior Atlético, the League wrapped in gift paper for Barça

Still intoxicated by the eroticism of the appointment with its own history in Liverpool, Madrid leaves the League to mouthfuls that are proof of life for Xavi's Barça, tormented precisely where all the crowns are white.

It is true that the excitement is not the same, but it is also true that he faced a very serious Atlético, similar to the one that happened in the Cup with the worst result, and that did not even destabilize after a joke expulsion that left him at an inferiority one third of the party.

The derby, then, puts the leader, who is playing in Almería this day, within a shot of a double-digit advantage, 10 points.

A definitive gap in normal situations, but Spanish football never ceases to amaze us.

Where a Negreira can live for 20 years, everything is possible.

Atlético draw (1-1) when they already have little to discuss in this League, except to save the Champions League.

's injury

.

The composition that

made had an objective, but the reality is that it ended up allowing

to spend time as a castaway.

Very lonely and very far from

.

The Argentine had decided to reinforce the midfield, although with no defensive profiles, which could give him two things: territorial control by position, his players very placed, and population in arrivals.

The reality is that for those arrivals he needed transitions executed with precision, and Atlético suffered from that throughout the first half.

REINFUL INJURY

's departure from the field

, broken, accentuated the problem, not only because Simeone lost one of his most fit and key players in the deployment on the wing, but because it made Carrasco have to anchor himself more to the defensive position.

Neither he is a specialist in that job nor is he valued if he does not fly.

Atlético, with a single natural striker, asked for more.

Simeone's first alternative, after the break, was

.

Ancelotti

also made decisions that may have to do with the calculation of resources.

He rested

appeared in the media

, along with

and

, while he placed Asensio on the right wing.

Next week against Barça, in the Cup semifinals, we will see something else: each one in their place and each other's place.

Asensio

does not have the perseverance and regularity, but he has his footing, and

received notice very soon when his team were the ones who dominated.

The shot carried a mantra: Madrid can score out of nowhere.

The occasion was like a puncture on the nervous system of a team that had started hypotensive.

From there and until the break, balance, but with a difference: Madrid finished the plays, shot;

Atlético, no.

Correa's entry subtracted a midfielder, as the young

stayed in the dugout , who missed almost everything.

The reverse of him was

, the goalscorer of the Madrid youth academy.

The impudence of Barrios was not accompanied by success, not this time.

He went from Atlético from 5-4-1 to 5-3-2, which made him lose control and be more exposed to a Madrid in which Valverde grew up.

From further back, he threatened more than Asensio with his arrivals in the area.

However, Madrid in attack is, today,

far above the others.

With forgiveness from

and what Benzema means.

Perhaps diminished by some inconvenience, the Frenchman was not the usual.

The complete opposite of his compatriot in the Atlético attack.

As Griezmann's company increased, also with the entry of

, the danger that he generates in each association grew.

The precision in the center of the goal to

would crown his game.

GIL MANZANO EXCEEDED

Ancelotti reacted to the change of scenery with the entry of

, whom he will need in the Cup, and

and

.

Before the clash found a new firing, Correa was too close to

when he brushed him off with his arm.

understood that it was an elbow, an attack, and sent him off without hesitation.

He has to take something else to unbalance a game.

In the holy week of arbitration, the truth is that Gil Manzano became a 'Negreira'.

That type of expulsion before the emotional charge that a derby always has usually unleashed the explosion, but Atlético did not break down.

On the contrary.

Simeone sent

out in search of spaces in an end to the exchange of blows.

Instead, the two goals would come from set pieces.

The rojiblancos took the lead with a free-kick to which Giménez arrived powerfully, shooting inside Griezmann, who is wearing gloves.

, a Uruguayan footballer from the white quarry,

did it .

It was someone unexpected in the area.

good news, at least, for a youth academy that sometimes seems to be forgotten in a Madrid for which this League is becoming a bad memory.

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