Eibar-Real Madrid Benzema, nice from the north

Yet There is football from the north and it is kept by Eibar. A more enlightened north, because there also fit haute couture extremes like Bryan Gil, but north after all, a territory that demands a high consumption of energy and testosterone. And from that stage, Madrid also came out unharmed, with black dress for the first half hour and corduroy for the remaining hour, demanded by a proud and irreducible adversary

Eibar is a team without kinks. Even if you are Japanese (read Muto or Inui) you understand their language the first time. There are no half measures: deep pressure because whoever avoids the opportunity (someone else) avoids danger, a very advanced defense that leaves Dmitrovic out in the open, football tooth and nail more concerned with the chase than with possession and a coach who claims to be more analog than digital but who handles this science very well. This is how he always plays, whoever falls, whoever arrives.

Modric and Benzema

The problem is that sometimes Madrid, Modric and Benzema arrive in a suit of lights, who know the plan, and the piano eats the drum. Zidane's team, now preserved in syrup, landed in Ipurua in a gale version. In full squeeze of work (eight games in December) the French has applied an ERTE in his own way. Just over half play and just under half watch. So again he pulled his personal guard, with Lucas Vázquez and Rodrygo from Benzema satellites, the center of the galaxy. The insistence seemed justified. Madrid made the ball circulate with vertigo, it spread through the wings, put the game into gear. Nothing to do with the anticipation of a cold and unpleasant crash. And he also made cash early, with two superb goals, both with Benzema's stroke. In the first, he controlled a great delivery from Rodrygo and then finished off mischievously against Dmitrovic. In the second, he walked like a tightrope walker on the baseline (remember how he once levitated over the lime in the defunct Calderón?) To give Modric the goal. Then they canceled another that improved both. He punctured a very long ball and sent it to the net on the fly with a perfect shot from outside. It was illegal for one foot.

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That stupendous outburst of Madrid would have finished with half of the teams in the League, but Eibar, like Mendilibar, is made of a different kind. Run and resist, squeeze and when you can, drown. More if he manages to get into the game. This time he did it in a big way, in a shot that was very far from Kike García's squad. A super goal in a super game, because what came next was hilarious, even if he stayed in the almost: a pass from Mendy that Lucas did not reach, a failed shot by Muto to a center by Bryan Gil, a goal that Bigas avoided after Lucas's own shot before Dmitrovic's crazy exit … And if everything the good that happened to Madrid had to do with Benzema, the same goes for Bryan Gil and Eibar. Yours has been a very high interest loan.

The white troubles

As the minutes passed, the first pressure from Eibar was no longer so ambitious. Beatings like this are not free, but neither was Madrid the ballet of the beginning and he also had to see in it a certain lead in the legs. The team grew long and losses in compromise zones frequent.

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Although less precise, the game continued to the rhythm of rock, with jumps from area to area, with two unstitched teams, almost exhausted by the effort and adrenaline overdose. In that section Eibar put more balls into the area, because it is in their nature, but Madrid had more chances. Rodrygo was a great one, in Kroos's goblin pass. To Muto, another, with a header at the near post.

And to the desserts came the controversy. A header from Muto hit Ramos's elbow. Throws like this have been whistled more than have been ignored. This week he was not playing. We will see the next one. That happened in the charge of Eibar, indesmayable until the end. Ramos later avoided the draw of Bigas and Benzema, finally, he gave the third to Lucas Vázquez. The French was the bonito from the north.