Real Madrid stopped the hemorrhage of goals against and defeats with a therapeutic win at the Bernabéu against Osasuna with an unleashed Vinícius, author of a hat trick, and at an unprecedented cost of injuries. Up to three players were injured in the first half: Rodrygo, who reappeared against Milan; Militão, who left on a stretcher crying and whose knee mishap could be very serious (he already broke his cruciate the previous summer) and Lucas Vázquez, who served as captain and who played until half-time with a cumbersome bandage on his thigh. and that he was not replaced before so as not to exhaust Ancelotti’s window for change.
With the victory, Madrid goes into the break with an important respite because with the setbacks in the classic and against Milan the atmosphere was beginning to be unbreathable for Carlo Ancelotti, with many players highlighted and the Bernabéu prone to whistles.
Osasuna
Fifth in the league, the red team did not get into the game
It benefited Madrid that Osasuna came fifth in the League, without difficulties of any kind and with the sole mission of entrenching themselves behind and seeing if the passing of the minutes gave them a chance. It was not like that and Madrid’s emergencies ended up taking them ahead as soon as Vinícius took advantage of his first clear chance, in the 34th minute, in a personal play after cutting down Catena and finishing with a shot into the top corner.
Ancelotti continued in his thirteen of betting on the team that he believes will lift this, which means that he returned to the 4-3-3 without giving a single ball to players like Endrick or Güler, whom the fans demand.
Madrid
More intense and compact
Without playing too well because Madrid is not up to par right now, they dominated the game from the beginning with a firm hand and a winning attitude. It was a more intense and compact team, very supportive and that threw its defensive line very high. Osasuna barely crossed the center of the field in the entire first half.
Misfortunes in the form of injuries forced Ancelotti to make changes. The first, Rodrygo for Brahim, nothing unusual but one of the usual substitutions. The second was already a great novelty. When Militão broke up, instead of using Jesús Vallejo, Ancelotti preferred Castilla player Raúl Asencio, one of the four youth players involved in the judicial investigation for the dissemination of a video with sexual content with a minor, two summers ago in Las Palmas. Asencio thus made his debut in the first team and a few minutes later, in the 42nd minute, he gave a long-range goal pass that Kroos would have signed and that Bellingham took advantage of to score the first of his own this season with a lob against Sergio Herrera.
The debut
Raúl Asencio, one of the youth players involved in the dissemination of a sexual video with a minor, made his debut
The second half began with Modric on the pitch instead of Lucas Vázquez and Valverde at right back, a position that is not at all strange for the Uruguayan.
The game was no longer for Osasuna. A long goal kick from Lunin in the 61st minute left Vinícius after a great run past Herrera, whom he dribbled to score the third at will. The Bernabéu then hailed their striker, singing “Golden Ball, Golden Ball.”
There was almost half an hour left and Madrid liked each other for the first time since the final minutes against Dortmund. Missing from the party was Mbappé, who had tried but things were still not working out for him after another poor performance.
In the 70th minute, Brahim cleared a ball for Boyomo, which allowed another shot by Vinícius that became his hat trick. With a quarter of an hour left, Güler and Endrick entered for Bellingham and Vinícius. Madrid didn’t push any harder. It remains to be seen whether the reaction is short-lived or the beginning of a recovery. We will have to wait to check it until after the national team break.
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