Whites fall in quarters, despite reaching the last moments with options to tie. Isak's double and Odegaard's goal
Marcelo, lying, while the Real players celebrate the pass.
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Isak, the Swedish kid of Eritrean origin who unhinged the Bernabu
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TO Zidane He doesn't like to go for drinks. To the Real Madrid, s. They say it softly, because they speak loudly about other competitions, but one thing is not to win the tournament and another to leave after feeling ridiculous at the Bernabu that does not compensate for the minutes of pride. At least, not everyone. The new format gave Madrid an advantage in the quarterfinals of a Cup that the coach failed to fill in the appropriate proportions. This Real that is like the boys in the choir not only eliminate and score the white team, but shake it, as so many times has happened to Zidane, before and after being a coach, in a tournament that does not have the measures, nor the ingredients.
Despite the background, ZZ decided to challenge fate. With up to seven players who are not among the usual headlines it was inevitable that the dynamics of Madrid would suffer. In some cases, in addition, they were football players who had few minutes, almost testimonials this season, as Brahim or Nacho and above all, James. In that group I was not Bale, which the technician left out was even the opportunities section. Zidane is the first to know about the imbalances caused by putting the eleven in the blender, but the decision has to do with his strategy in the locker room to have all the players connected when the first slopes of the season are already sighted. We must not forget the way in which he won his only League, with two units of similar effectiveness. The team, for now, is not for that. The Cup is a tournament that Madrid wants to win, like everyone else, but it is not tragic to lose. A land, then, to risk, to experiment and to make equipment. Neither the League nor the Champions allow more than victory for victory. Before the Real, however, his hand went away, an eraser after 21 undefeated games.
The sensations were not good for Madrid until he saw the precipice, as if it stimulated the abyss. Dominated by Real in the game, he failed until his goalkeeper the day he was not his goalkeeper. Courtois It has become a dike that does not lift Areola. The French rejected a shot towards the center and Odegaard Mark as if he didn't want to. The Norwegian shoots softly, towards the grimace, but the goalkeeper fails. It was the goal of the prodigal son, given by Madrid, who left the field, touched, prematurely.
The goal did not decompose Madrid more than it already was, with continuous coordination errors. The absence of Casemiro, the only justified by a few tenths of fever, led the pivot to Valverde, with which Madrid lost its thrust in the three quarters. James tried it with his left and Brahim fades in minutes. Vinicius It was the only clear trick for those of Zidane, so the game turned to the left, but in a desperate and unbalanced way. The San Sebastian team was, on the contrary, quite the opposite, increasingly comfortable, with Merino at the controls and with spaces to look for Isak, that happened of the errors, like in the first option of auction, to be the decisive soccer player, with the second and third of the goals, both in two minutes. First remat almost acrobatic; then kill mat at point blank range.
The Knight Charge
All that happened already in the second half, but before the player of Eritrean origin could have opened up, nothing more to begin and when the echo of the rest arrived. Sergio Ramos he was the only starter in the defensive line, and the only one who was not in his place against the realistic counter, badly resolved this time by Isak. The white captain had decided to jump into the mountain in search of the impossible goal, but it was not yet time for miracles and, on the other hand, it could cost his own an early misfortune. Ramos is no longer corrected by history. Genius and figure, you have to buy the entire package, and it is a winning package, with wind against it. I returned to that place for the last shot that could have brought Madrid into the extra time. Remiro, however, was also in place.
The disadvantage in the marker and the bad sensations can make think of a blow of Zidane in the rest, as it happened before Levante. When the changes have been so many, on the other hand, it is something else. The most hierarchical I had on hand, jumped into the field: Modric. Madrid did not grow, but reached the scoreboard what the game said when Real, thanks to Isak's goals, took advantage of three goals. With that disadvantage, any rival is let go, anyone but Madrid, which may appear out of nowhere. It is what I interpreted Marcelo. He had been a swimmer in the match, but he was able to touch the spring that changed the atmosphere and the game. He did it violently, a shot of faith.
The knight's burden had to wait, because Merino was able to find where to fish in a penalty defense. One of those who had been worse, Nacho, replied against himself in the opposite area to give the hope that Madrid fans know so much, after Rodrygo, to pass of Vinicius, it will cut the distances. In case of fulfilling the comeback, it would have been a day to change the fate of Vinicius, although with or without Copa, he begins to find the way. Zidane, who for the first time scores four goals as coach of Madrid, is always wrong in the Cup.
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