Casemiro plays Ramos

If Sergio Ramos cannot emerge as a savior, Casemiro appears. The leadership and scoring head of the absent camero were ‘transplanted’ to the Brazilian in Pucela for a victory that fuels Madrid for the League. Even finished as a third more central, between Lucas and Mendy in a variant that Zidane sometimes likes. If he had dropped the '1' from '14' on his number it would hardly have been noticed …

Pucela's was Casemiro's sixth goal of this course, which reinforces him as the second top scorer for this Madrid and had another clear header before it could also be a goal. Four shots, almost like a nine. “Casemiro is one of our pillars and he helps us a lot from set pieces”, Butragueño was later comforted in Movistar +.

There are four goals with his powerful head in this campaign. They tried that medicine before Valladolid first Atlético in the first Madrid derby (December 12, 2-0), then Granada (December 23, 2-0) and finally the Alavés (January 23, 1-4). With Pucela's, four headers in four wins. His 0-1 from the skies put sauce on a very solid game for the Brazilian again, with 12 steals, three successful innings and even suffered two fouls from Valladolid.

On a historical level, Ramos and Benzema are unattainable in this squad when it comes to scoring with a header (51 goals of this kind as the Andalusian Madrid player, 46 for the French) but Casemiro leads for example to Varane. The pivot of the canarinha he has signed up 11 in Madrid (by 9 of the French central) and more than a third has done them this season which still has a lot of cloth to cut. For now, the goals emphasize this role of Casemiro as a great pillar of a Real Madrid desperate for blood loss.

A danger for Gasperini

Varane wears the bracelet by seniority but it is Casemiro takes the baton to despair first from Sergio González (“We knew that Casemiro was one of his great strengths, the man to score, it makes me angry that they caught us like this”) and start to worry, presumably, Gasperini. The football architect of Atalanta is waiting to know if he has to cover Benzema's headdress but what he does know is that he will have to see how to neutralize Case, which seems to he does not regret playing Ramos. And that, in Europe, are big words.