It was a crazy game and in that environment no one is better than Vinicius, who is no longer a mischievous winger but possibly Madrid's best solution. In half an hour he took Madrid out of the well twice with two sensational goals, especially the second, and caused the expulsion of Aitor. Levante did not win because of that hurricane, which was also a seesaw team.
The thing is that Mbappé does not spoil anything before he comes to fix everything. Hence, Ancelotti muleted the matter until it was removed from the locker room. You know that bringing the market into the conversation takes focus away from the objective. And he knows that if the matter does not come together he will have to throw, with that soft hand that has given him three Champions, of what there is, an almost invincible team if it returns to what it was. Read: if Hazard, in an anatomical acrobatics, pulls his ankle out of his head; if Bale puts Madrid ahead of Wales and golf, in that order; if Valverde returns where he left off a year and a half ago; if Benzema happens to be a forward and not a forward; if Pintus ends the muscle pandemic; and if Isco finds the goblin. Ancelotti sees the man from Malaga more recoverable than Zidane and offers him a train that perhaps he no longer expected. This time his mission was, due to the casualties, of a midfielder, a role that allows little fantasizing, but he made it clear that it is another. It grew to become the highest authority of the party
The Levante is a good example of false modesty. Don't wait for him in your area showing off your toughness. There he has no escape. His football is pressing, vertical, with two supersonic extremes, De Frutos and Morales; a crafty striker, Roger Martí, and a very absorbing midfielder, Campaña. All players who have been on the edge of the greats in a team rebuilt by the losses of Soldado and Dani Gómez.
Without Modric or Kroos, it was difficult for Madrid to come out of the very high Granota pressure, but in the first break they took advantage. Alaba threw Benzema, who from the left beat Vezo's back; the grass slowed the ball and changed the pace of the play. He waited, slashed, and searched for Bale's left. The Welshman's auction was final. With the auction he always got along well. A good goal, the first he has made with Madrid in 19 months, without the justification of the game, which had been scored by Levante.
In reality, Paco López's team had more uproar than substance on his departure. He opened the bands well, he recovered quickly, he had a certain joy, but he did not leave a mark in the area. And that encouraged Madrid, who touched the second goal in a shot that was botched by Bale. The pass was from Valverde, with the best Isco and Alaba, the best white bra. After half an hour, the Austrian tried it from afar, to whom the band seems little. Wait for him in any area and with solutions for everything. A luxury signing. On the other side was Hazard, once again insignificant in a team that went to rest in a gale version. Levante reached the equator asking for the time.
And yet, on his return, he found the tie, in a mistake by Lucas Vázquez that enabled Roger to pass Melero. Courtois didn't deflect the striker enough. And then the gale was the Levante, which went from besieged to assailant. And he turned the game around with a tremendous Campaign volley. A lightning comeback from a team with constant mood swings. Ancelotti then hit the steering wheel with Carvajal, Asensio, Rodrygo and VInicius, already with time blowing his face. All those who entered make their fortune in space, the only thing that a locked up Levante no longer granted. Still, Vinicius, who deserves another treatment, reached the tie at the sprint. But behind he became a strainer and again paid dearly for a mistake and Pier again overtook Levante. And Vinicius played a lifeguard with a goal of greater art, in a subtle touch without an angle that he touched on the stick, and he even had time to cause Aitor to be sent off. Vezo ended up as a goalkeeper pleading that that Brazilian spark would not take him away. His substitution can no longer hold the stripes of Hazard or anyone else.