Real Madrid-Alavés Madrid apologizes with goals

He will have to explain the dressing room of Madrid why what is discussed intramurally during the week does not penetrate and what is debated, with more haste and worse humor, in the fifteen hour break of the encounters. The issue is recurring. Against Alavés he went back to throwing a time with a lazy, inanimate football, and he later became the leader of the competition to exit the labyrinth through the usual emergency door: a left-footed shot from Asensio that opened the way for the showtime.

The comebacks (and the one that is coming against PSG is one of the good ones, not because of the size of the disadvantage, but because of the size of Mbappé), which are nothing more than the patch of a mistake, also have their protocol. The first thing is to find out what went wrong. That investigation was soon closed by Ancelotti: “The approach was bad.” And the work of the players, too. The second step is to believe, that courses have been taught at the Bernabéu since the beginning of time, and the third, to give the public reasons to believe. For that and to keep Sevilla away, Madrid played against Alavés. Although late, he was able to apologize and told the crowd that it is possible.

Eight seconds later, Joselu had touched his first header ball. In the first minute Vinicius launched his first sprint. That’s what the game was about. Alavés moderately drew the vision of football offered by Mendilibar: he pressed the ball out less than usual, but the defense advanced a lot, he trivoted with Pina, Escalante and Loum and he hoped that the fine rain that fell on the white area would do it on the head of his nine. Football from the north that loses a lot when it comes from the north, because it needs the public to really intimidate.

Jason forgives

Against a team that was less hermetic than usual among their kind, Madrid wanted to run, but soon languished because Alavés was disciplined in withdrawing and generous in aid. He even had the first big chance. It went to Jason and Casemiro breathed, who put the ball on a plate for him. The reactivation of Madrid means that Vinicius becomes devilish again, Benzema recovers his records and comes out expensive with Asensio. None of the three things happened in the first half and they all happened in the second.

before the break Madrid stayed in three good starts by Valverde that did not reach the goal and in a shot without placement by Modric, which later tended to infinity again. There was not a single sign in the first half that the team had gone to rehabilitation after the white night in the Parc des Princes. Another first time gift.

Then, like against Granada and Villarreal, it was something else. Soon Vinicius’ chilli pepper appeared and the others came to his bugle call: Mendy, Asensio and especially Modric, the player who heals everything in the team. And now yes, Madrid got out of its routine. Pacheco took a one-on-one from Vinicius, Lejeune took a goal from Benzema on the line, Casemiro missed a shot from a privileged position.

the final storm

and then football he concentrated in one minute all his admirable paradoxes. Pere Pons entered to cover Madrid’s left wing and what was found was a unique chance in a tremendous mistake by Asensio. He beat Courtois and didn’t find the angle that seemed to exist to score. And right away, the balearic, which was presumed in shock, another golden goal was scored, very much in his style: from outside the area, curling the ball. A marvel. The best way to ask for forgiveness (although before asking those who whistled for silence). It is unbeatable in its appearances and very improvable in its continuity.

Thus began the white recreation, culminated with a flag goal: Benzema’s heel to start the wall with Asensio and Vinicius’s final shot to the Frenchman’s center. Somewhat well above the game and Madrid. A penalty converted by Benzema rounded off the victory while PSG fell off the cliff in Nantes. No one is free from black nights.