In full depression for its elimination of the Champions League, Madrid remains in the league connected to the respirator thanks to a goal of Valverde in the 93 minute that threw the defensive framework of an Athletic of sales that occurred in the Bernabéu with ten changes in its starting headline with respect to the team that won the Rangers on Thursday in San Mamés. The only one who repeated in Ernesto Valverde’s was Berenguer and also played Unai Simon, the international for Spain who is the goalkeeper of the League. Apart from tactical issues, the great casualty in the lions was Nico Williams, who stayed in Bilbao suffering from a pubalgia.
Madrid played a horrible first part but in the second it improved remarkably and deserved a victory that leaves four points of Barcelona.
For Madrid it was about finding a new illusion and facing what is left of the season in the most dignified way possible when all kinds of rumors about the high and casualties over the club.
The eleven of Madrid
With two strikers, Vinícius and Rodrygo
Ancelotti, who looks very musty and sullen since Thursday, was decided by a very conventional team. The great issue I had to decide is who played instead of the sanctioned and injured Mbapé. The most excited bet was to see Endrick in action, but the Italian preferred something more conservative. An attack formed only by Vinícius and Rodrygo to reinforce the center of the field with a fourth midfielder, which was the recovered Ceballos.
The greatest novelty of Madrid in the eleven was again on the sides, which occupied two unusual, as Valverde in the right and Camavinga on the left. The French had made it sorrow the last time it was seen in that trance.
The first part
A tired and soulless team
The first part was totally improper of a team that is playing the league title. Madrid played without the slightest energy, disrupting the ball horizontally and without any deep pass that would harm the Athletic lines, folded with order around Unai Simon and living one of the 45 most comfortable minutes he has played in the Bernabéu.
Such is the state of this team that the stadium was silent in the nonsense of its team, as if it were a preseason match. With Modric and Ceballos very delayed, nobody gave speed to the ball and the only danger of Madrid was a couple of internships for their vinícius band that did not find auctioneer. The Brazilian was also too individualistic. Not once, Madrid hit in the first part, in which Unai Simon was one more spectator with the only work of doing very occasionally with a ball that fell hung from the corner.
The closest thing to an occasion that Madrid had was a theft of Vinícius ball to Djaló that Brazilian himself closed with a shot that went slightly above the crossbar. There was also another header in good position of Valverde at the hands of Unai Simon.
The second part
Madrid recovered energy
The second part was very different. It has already started with a very dangerous shot of Rodrygo diverted by centimeters. Then Camavinga had it after a gallop and a shot that took Unai in a play that began with a wonderful heel of vinícius with which he removed two rivals from the middle.
At the time of play, Endrick entered Ceballos to the search for more verticality. Courtois took the first and unique from Athletic to Unai Gómez in one and then it was Unai Simón who avoided Madrid’s goal in a Bellingham header. Madrid was another.
Valverde introduced a triple change and threw its defensive line later because the goal was seized. It didn’t matter because Madrid was still squeezing.
Gol canceled
Vinícius marked but before was Endrick out of play
In the 80s he marked vinícius but after review of the VAR the goal was annulled outside Endrick. There were seven minutes left. Bellingham had it, who was wrong at the auction, and when everything seemed lost for the whites a Valverde volley unleashed the joy of Bernabéu and keeps Madrid alive in the absence of six days.
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