The Real Madrid took a step back in the fight for the league title. He drew at Di Stéfano against him Betis that added a gold point in his career to enter Europe. A point that for Real Madrid is of little or no use because everything that is not a victory in these last games is little less than moving away from revalidating the title.
Zidane, as is customary in the last games, he made rotations in the eleven. Nacho went from the center of the rear to the left side with Carvajal en the right. The technician gave a chance to Isco and decided to sit Vinicius what for Marco Asensio and Rodrygo will accompany Benzema. Changes against a Betis that came out with everything and that began dominating the duel. He pushed the ball out of Real Madrid that could barely get out of his field. The Sevillian dominance did not turn on occasions and at a quarter of an hour, the game was equalized with the whites arriving at the Claudio Bravo.
The feeling was that Madrid generated more danger than a Betis that did not go from controlling the duel to defending itself. Those of Zidane they trusted everything to Benzem
to that every time he touched the ball something happened and it was the Frenchman who had the best chance of the first half with a shot that stopped Bravo. The most dangerous shot and the only one among the three suits of the entire first act. Channels responded with a shot that went near the post of Courtois. Two oases in the middle of a first part that was a real tostón. Madrid lived on individual actions and Betis limited itself to defending and little else. A good example of how that first act was is that between the two teams there was only one shot between the three sticks.
How could it be otherwise, they reached the break without goals and with the hope that something would happen in the second half. About 45 minutes that began as the second half ended, with Real Madrid generating more sense of danger than a Betis that still did not have the ball and setting everything against it, something that for a team of Pellegrini it seems sin.
The duel was animated with a center of Rodrygo that ended up on the crossbar and a shot of Guido what stopped it Courtois. Zidane, seeing that his team lacked one more speed, removed Rodrygo to put Vinicius. Zizou wanted the goal, but the one who came closest to achieving it was Betis through the mediation of Borja Iglesias placeholder image that failed before Courtois a very clear occasion. Modric responded with a shot from the front that deflected Claudio Bravo. Definitely, the meeting had been animated and in that context, Zidane decided to change to a defense of three centrals giving entry to Odriozola and Marcelo for Carvajal and Isco, respectively.
Hazard returns
The match turned into a round trip and Zidane decided it was the right time for him to Hazard will play the last quarter of an hour on his return to the pitch. Pellegrini, for his part, reactivated his attack with Juanmi and Loren Morón.
With Real Madrid and Betis looking for the goal, they entered the final stretch of the match at Di Stéfano. A few minutes in which a mistake could condemn one of the two teams to defeat. In the end, no one was wrong and the match ended goalless.
(+) See the summary with the best plays of the game:
| 1 T. Courtois | 25 C. Bravo | ||
| two D. Carvajal 68 ' | 22 Emerson | ||
| (12 Marcelo) | 2. 3 A. Mandi | ||
| 3 Éder Militão | 6 V. Ruiz | ||
| 5 R. Varane | 33 J. Miranda | ||
| 6 Nacho | twenty-one G. Rodriguez | ||
| 14 Casemiro | 18 A. Saved 88 ' | ||
| 10 L. Modrić 77 ' | (14 W. Carvalho) | ||
| (31 White) | twenty D. Lainez 80 ' | ||
| 22 Isco 68 ' | (7 Juanmi) | ||
| (19 TO. Odriozola) | 10 S. Channels | ||
| 25 Rodrygo 59 ' | 17 Joaquin 59 ' | ||
| (twenty Vinicius Jr.) | (24 A. Ruibal) | ||
| 9 K. Benzema | 9 Borja Iglesias 80 ' | ||
| eleven M. Asensio 77 ' | (16 Loren Moron) | ||
| (7 E. Hazard) | |||
Goals:
Cards:L Isco (35 '), C. Bravo (92'), Loren Morón (93 ')L
Referee: Estrada Fernández X.
Spectators: 0 at the Alfredo Di Stéfano
| THE BEST The actions of Benzema by Real Madrid and Canales by Betisl | |
| WORST The lack of success of the two teams against the rival goal |