Half a deposit was enough for Madrid to liquidate Eibar arithmetically in his first match at Di Stéfano, the setting for the rehearsal that took the duel's solemnity. Socceristically the distance was less, but the Mendilibar group offers better organization than definition. Madrid secured the outstanding marksmanship and he basked in Hazard's return, with the appearance of a spring signing. Benzema and Modric were his best companions, in a match from most to least highly conditioned by the early goal by Kroos.
With ten classics and Rodrygo, Madrid re-entered the competition. No one is cooler than Di Stéfano than the Brazilian, who inaugurated the move: he made a short but unexpected trip back to Castilla in February after six consecutive absences in LaLiga. In any case, Zidane handles more data than anyone in the quarantine, from the garden of each person's house, where it all started, to the de-escalation in Valdebebas. Still today Rodrygo is the third goalscorer in the squad, a record that speaks ill of the group's production chain, and that would explain its ownership, although Madrid was much closer to its history than usual: a devastating punch, so many times even above your game. Hazard, the crown prince, the almost Messi, also returned in his second life, with promising signs. There is no trace of its fissures or the laziness of last summer.
The other side was an Eibar without fortune, reformed in names and almost nothing in intentions: punishment pressure to the Madrid area and very advanced defense, almost suicidal when the invader is a world power. It was always a team more annoyed by daring than by cautious.
Without making a mistake, he was soon turned upside down. He rejected a ball to a corner of the area that, at best, invited another shipment to the pot and first Kroos placed the ball in the square with surgical precision and no violence in hitting. A great goal.
Also a genius on which Madrid lay down to the rhythm that Modric gave him intermittently, the best tuned in the return, although the rest also showed no signs of energy poverty before a hard-hitting Eibar, grown at times, but with the lack of sharpness that has him with the rope around his neck.
His lack of precautions ended up killing him in a capicúa counter that started and ended Ramos, after Benzema's elimination maneuver and Hazard's gift for the Sevillian to like an empty goal. The service door has been open at Eibar since the beginning of the season. Plus, his northern football, which Mendilibar aims to remove contaminants from, loses a lot as soon as he steps on the plateau. You need Ipurua more than you think.
Madrid, which came out on goal by shot, was catching wave. AND rehearsing with the best possible society, Benzema-Hazard, two craftsmen. The same ones that made the third goal, signed by Marcelo, who picked up the rejection of Dmitrovic after a whiplash from the Belgian. It was the first of the course for the Brazilian, 19th player in the squad in the scorer table.
Eibar late reaction
The three blows were platinum for Madrid in times when it matters both to win and rest. The law of five changes purifies the legs and the environment. Where only fourteen previously fit, now sixteen enter. Two less discontented per day.
But, also, in a way, they distort the party. They put him, on the way out, better for Eibar, who in a minute chained his two best options (a whip by Edu Expósito that saved Courtois and a header to the crossbar by Enrich) and a carom goal: De Blasis's shot was unintentionally deflected by Bigas with his hip to mislead the Madrid goal. Zidane took away minutes from Ramos and changed his bands with Vinicius and Bale, the only footballer from Madrid who plays better without an audience at home. Now he is third plate, but that does not make him abdicate the rogue point that seems to amuse him (this same week he posed in a family photo simulating a swing). Neither he nor the rest of the substitutes improved Madrid, who let himself go scandalously. The confinement has not corrected that malformation of the team, so denounced by Zidane and still pending to resolve. The Eibar squeezed as if in hope, appeared in the area, pulled Inui's depth and evidenced a high sense of duty. But those virtues are of little value when you leave home unarmed.