A Madrid of the right

The right wing has taken Madrid out of the quagmire. In two finals this week, on that flank so attacked by injuries came the two assists in Benzema's goals against Mönchengladbach (by Lucas Vázquez and Rodrygo) and it was the lane that tactically destabilized, for the umpteenth time, Simeone.

Mendy is a missile and Vinicius is triphasic electricity, but the solution has come at the feet of two kids who have accumulated 29 seasons of service to the white cause. Carvajal, just released his father's card, and Lucas Vázquez, who started the week as a right-back, yesterday he started as a right-handed winger and ended the game again as two.

While Savic and Koke got tangled up trying to get Vinicius out of the game, Carva and Lucas did their thing on the other side of the field. Madrid attacked more from the right (45 percent of the time, compared to 38% from the left-handed side) and generated more scoring chances. Three in Carvajal's boots (one was 2-0 in confluence with Oblak's back) and Lucas, for one in the sinister band, Mendy. An asymmetric attack that rounded off Zidane's defensive trap, which used the Leganense side and the Galician winger to make a sandwich that locked up Carrasco, one of Cholo's brand new weapons as a lane player.

Zizou no longer smells of singe

Like your players, Zizou got his mojo tactical in the steepest part of the season. One more time, his slate broke Atleti. And they go … In the final of the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, also with a victory against Atlético, Florentino proclaimed that Zidane “is a blessing from heaven.” Less than a year later, the French smell the smell of sulfur, but has resisted with a week that has been a master class and the smiles return.

But the white refloat does not make them, despite everything, good times for the lyric. Lucas Vázquez knows it well. He tries to rekindle the flame of love with Madrid but the club does not read his WhatsApp or react to the winks in his stories, Or so it seems. Its renewal begins to be a matter of State. Or from First Dates.