The 270 minutes of a "quite rare" and "inexplicable" drought in Madrid: "More efficiency, less looking at each other"

• Chronicle A Madrid denied with the goal leaves two and a half points in the League at Villamarín

Rodrigo

, stop.

, at the hands of Bravo.

, out.

, to the goalkeeper.

, to the center.

, up... The succession of chances wasted by

at the

despair

, who was looking down at the ground while the League was slipping away from the hands of the white team.

The Italian turned towards the bench looking for the complicit look of his son

and some logical explanation for a team that had been capable of scoring five goals in

itself suddenly being incomprehensibly useless towards the rival goal.

Davide got up from his seat, approached his father and mumbled some argument in the technician's ear, who nodded like someone listening to rain.

The sequence was repeated over and over again on the verdiblanco pitch, where Madrid shot

, all in the second half, and made as many as 15 attempts in the area near

's goal .

Everything for a 0-0 that leaves him

and that is the

.

Counting the defeat against Barça in the first leg of the Cup semifinals, this is the

since October 2021.

On that occasion, a draw against

and two defeats against

(in the Champions League) and

in the League created a small

that Madrid resolved by forcefully winning the championship.

Now the situation and times are different.

"It has to affect"

"

. It is quite rare that this team cannot score a goal in three games. It is something that affects a lot and the players are also affected. It has to affect it, if it does not affect it, we do not improve. We have the quality to score goals, we have always scored them.

", reflected Ancelotti in the press room.

Earlier,

, who played one of his best games of the season as a midfielder, admitted not knowing what was happening in Madrid's attack.

"

.

. We're in good physical and mental health. There are times when you're fine and the ball doesn't go in and other times the opposite. These are things that happen in football."

Carletto

, more experienced in this type of scoring crisis, did try to put words to the problems of his squad: "

. We dribble too many, too many walls and one shot on goal less. We had three or four very clear chances, but sometimes we don't make the best decision. There is a lack of balance, we are well behind but we need to be well up".

After breaking the shell at Anfield Road, scoring five goals in a historic night, Madrid accumulated

without scoring a goal from play.

The only goal that has risen to the Madrid scoreboard is Álvaro's header in the derby... From a set piece.

Curiously, the only goal that the whites scored at Villamarín, annulled by VAR, also came from a set piece: a well-executed free kick by

that

deflected with his arm.

Madrid is again at nine points, the limit distance in the history of the League.

overcame

that distance against

in 1999. He did it while being nine points behind much earlier, not in March, but he did it.

Of the 10

, yes.

"We can say that we are alive. It is difficult, we cannot lie. Although we have to play against them and we have to win everything to be able to compete for LaLiga," Rodrygo assured.

The whites now have

.

It will be the first time without football during the week in all of 2023 for Madrid, a physical and mental blessing for a stunned team in the League that has managed to succeed in the Club World Cup and in Europe.

"For the first time we have a week to work and these aspects must be improved.

, so it is possible. It is very difficult, but we have no doubt that we will fight until the end," Ancelotti insisted.

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