Madrid did not escape the negative spiral in which the classic left them immersed in a season in which they have not quite gotten the hang of it. He needed a moral rearrangement in his favorite competition and found himself with the second defeat in a row and the second also in the Champions League in a match in which all the seams were seen again against a Milan that came with many problems and that at the Bernabéu It seemed much more than it is, repeating having been the European bête noire of the whites at the end of the 1980s.
For Madrid, the worst thing was not losing (in this Champions League format a defeat is more recoverable than before) but the feeling of Ancelotti’s inability to find the key to putting together a competitive team capable of aspiring to titles after a summer in that threatened to take over the world and that right now needs heroics to beat anyone. The worst observation for the club is the divorce that is beginning to be seen between the stands and its players. Madrid went to the locker room at half-time with a loud whistle, which had not happened in a long time.
Whistling
The public took it with Tchouaméni
Some footballers were whistled as soon as they touched the ball; The most egregious case was that of Tchouaméni, author once again of a calamitous match and directly responsible for Milan’s second goal, to the insult of Morata. At this point, no one can explain why the Frenchman is still the starter.
With a team similar to that of the classic with the only change being Modric’s entry, Madrid was the one from the last games. Despite his advanced pressure, he could not govern the game, which turned out to be a give and take from area to area. The whites once again showed evident defensive fragility because Milan came at will. On the other hand, they played little football and Mbappé did not see the goal because his compatriot Maignan got two goals from him in two great saves.
Morata
Third team with which he scores against Madrid
Milan took the lead very early on a corner kick from Pulisic and a header from Thiaw to the complacency of Militão. Madrid reacted with fury and tied with a penalty (the sixth they were awarded this season), an action in which Emerson over-braked Vinícius and knocked him down. For Milan, the penalty was a penalty. Morata earned a yellow card with his protests while the stands sang to him, “Morata, how bad you are, how bad you are.”
The Madrid native’s revenge was not exactly served cold but very few minutes later. In the 39th minute Tchouaméni missed an easy pass from Vinícius. Then, he stood still and did not help in defense. Leao hit a ball that forced Lunin to make a great save, but no one noticed that Morata was coming in on the rebound to score unopposed to make it 1-2. Morata has already scored against Madrid with three different teams: Atlético, Juventus and Milan.
The second half began with a double change for the whites. The first very logical: Camavinga by Tchouameni; the second, Brahim for Valverde. The man from Malaga reappeared after his injury in Anoeta in September.
Mbappe
Little success in the auction
Madrid pushed hard after Ancelotti’s scolding but the first intervention was from Lunin, who prevented Leao’s header from being the third. Ten minutes into the second half the game was completely broken.
Bellingham missed a clear shot. Madrid played without restraint or order in a kind of reckless flight forward, without a center of the field and taking risks because it left a lot of ground to cover.
In the midst of the madness, only Mbappé made sense of his plays, but he continued to fail in the shot. Ceballos came in for Modric, which gave an idea of Ancelotti’s desperation. Milan reacted by blatantly wasting time. In the 71st minute, a great counterattack by Leao led to the third Italian goal in a close-range shot by Reijnders. In the 81st minute Rüdiger scored, but Rodrygo was clearly offside and Maigan still had time to make a save for Brahim. Madrid is still on the canvas. He can’t find the medicine to recover. The heroic comeback cannot always be its only argument.
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