Madrid still doesn’t know what to wear. All types of jackets, combinations and outfits are tried without much success. And he doesn’t feel comfortable with anything. In Balaídos he dared with a risky look for the novelty: playing with three centre-backs. Like someone who hopes that a haircut will completely solve their personality problems. The result was, to say the least, disconcerting. Especially for the Madrid players themselves, disoriented and desperate at times. Despite playing with five defenders, there were more holes than ever and several Celta players repeatedly stood completely alone in front of a sold Courtois, once again decisive. Madrid’s game, meanwhile, remains as gray as its shirt in Vigo. Thick and flat like a bowl of reheated porridge. The tests seem a worrying symptom to be almost in November and with Borussia Dortmund and a renovated Barça knocking on the doors of the Bernabéu. Ancelotti’s commitment to the three centre-backs is interpreted as a flare in the ocean, asking for reinforcements from the board. with which to shore up their battered defense. Each game, in addition, Militao has seven different threats of injuries. It doesn’t win for Ancelotti chewing gum. The Italian is going to finish with galloping bruxism. But that’s what forcing a player after a serious injury to face the season with the most demanding schedule in years without a guaranteed replacement. Modric showed, on the day he became the oldest player in wearing the white one, who still doesn’t want her last waltz to play. He came onto the field from the bench and gave a spectacular goal pass to Vinícius. Apart from offering tranquility and judgment to a Madrid that moved around the field like a headless chicken. And all this, also, coming from playing with his country’s team. It remains fundamental and special. Modric, like Vila-Matas’s Paris, never ends. The irony of all this is that, with Real Madrid’s current strict transfer policy, the Croatian would never have been able to join the white team. He landed in Madrid at the age of 27 and without a letter of freedom. Something unthinkable today. The good thing about Modric is that, like white, he combines with everything. A relief for this Madrid that can’t quite find itself in front of the mirror.
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