‘Kaiser’ Militao

There is life after Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane and Madrid has not had to wait years to prove it. Half a season has been enough. Alaba has no adaptation problems and if the Austrian leaves a hole, Militao goes to cover it. The brazilian He is at a point where he has plenty to watch over his wall, that of his partner and help Courtois to build a Zamora Trophy. Also to put Madrid in the kindest hype, which is not little …

While Pepe lived his swan song in Do Dragao 600 kilometers away, his best heir (he also made the Porto-Madrid transit) put more concrete on the foundations of a career already free of suspicions and ravings. This Militao controls the airspace, anticipates and runs backwards like the Portuguese in his best times and adds an extra to be full equipe: the red wire is not crossed with the green one. The Brazilian contained himself in Barella’s aggression and escaped from a possible red. Warm heart in the field, but without excesses.

Alaba came with the idea of ​​being the Kaiser of Madrid, but Militao takes out the tanks. “He is a super player,” commented Ancelotti after the Brazilian central defender’s review of Lautaro Martínez, the forward of the hundred million euros that nobody finishes paying. A backward acceleration that gives Carletto one more meter, right where goals are negotiated. Militao is Madrid’s fastest defender. In this Champions has an average maximum speeds of 32 kilometers per hour, ahead of Mendy (31.3 Km / h), Carvajal (30.5 Km / h), Alaba (30.1 Km / h) and Nacho (29.1 Km / h) and Marcelo (26.6 Km / h / h).

It is left over …

That power brings results. Militao is the footballer who has recovered the most balls in this edition of the Champions League, with 45, ahead of Meunier (Borussia Dortmund) and Hendry (Bruges), who have stolen 42.

A power that has a lot to do with Madrid sustaining itself within the barrier that Ancelotti likes, that of living below the psychological bar of conceding less than one goal per game. The white team averages 0.81 per game. Even lower in the Champions League, where there have been only three in six games. Militao is the bulletproof glass.