Real Madrid-Mallorca Asensio is charged with reason

It was a Mallorca recently promoted and full of substitutes, so as not to be misled, but take note of this violin quartet: Rodrygo, Asensio, Benzema and Vinicius. It's going to be hard to get them out of there. Hazard, Bale and anyone who wants it. Madrid regained the lead with lavish decor in a simple match. AND Asensio he found his place in Madrid and in the world. He is not remembered for such a complete party on either the right or the left. As a midfielder, that place that has not existed in Madrid for years, that player reappeared who one day seemed called to mark an era. They met Ancelotti, who handled the player's discontent well, and Asensio, who replied in the appropriate forum. Madrid left the game as if it had closed a galactic signing. Mallorca, as if that had not gone with him.

Ancelotti's eleven left a very visible trail. There will be no extreme rotations. Casemiro's Madrid / Brazil beating has left lead in his legs and fog in his head. It is convenient to clear him. Only half portions of Hazard can be served. Modric is only going to be taken out of the eleven presumed half-hair games because there is no game manager that comes close to him. Camavinga and Rodrygo are in the first line of substitutes, those who deservedly touch ownership with their fingertips. They are the spearhead of the next gen. Benzema can forget about vacations and Jovic can take them whenever he wants. And Marco Asensio has in his hand to be what he appears to be. The right wing waited for him throughout the past year and he did not show up. Yesterday Ancelotti offered him that left hand with which he has raised so many glasses and left the ball on his court. He gave him the place of playmaker in that 4-2-3-1 to which he begins to take a liking. A success, because the Balearic left the message that this train will not let him pass. More if the position falls like a glove.

Gayá's mistake

Luis García, from the other shore, played two games in one: that of the Bernabéu and that of next Sunday in Son Moix against Osasuna. It happens in short ammo teams, they can't shoot everything. So the coach only kept four of those who played against Villarreal last week. It was a tacit acceptance that he was facing an impossible.

The party soon proved him right. Gayà, the side of the subsidiary that he threw before the plague of losses in defense, screwed up a bad control. One misfortune followed by another: Benzema was the closest enemy and he has not missed one for three years. This neither. He took half a dozen strides and crossed the ball into the net.

In shock, in the next few minutes, Mallorca was denying all its virtues. It was a bed rolled back, without order, without pressure, in a panic. Even so, he had two clear chances to tie, from Kubo and Lago Junior, who returned him to the game. That also has this Madrid of Ancelotti, a long, fun and deeply vulnerable team. Give a lot and take a little. But this time he knew early that this was not going to be San Siro or Mestalla, where his rivals died of respiratory failure. Madrid always had that: they live off their faith when they can't live off their football.

The white festival

With the defenses on the run, there was a recreation game, a lot of areas and very little of coaches. Asensio scored the goal of the one who was passing by when neither Reina nor his defense knew how to get an impossible incursion from Rodrygo. Kang-in Lee responded with a high-end left-footed shot from outside the area. And so that the spree would not stop, Asensio repeated this time with a goal at his height: unchecked, oriented control, almost self-passing, spur and academic resolution with the left. A play of great purity, like that football that always accompanied him (he even tried an Olympic goal, the repera of this game). He completed the hat-trick with a carbon copy of Kang-in Lee's goal. It was a brutal vindication through the regulatory channel: on the grass. This is how opportunities are requested.

Vinicius enjoyed that girigay. Stuck in party is unstoppable. Overflowed, cut, threw pipes, liked … The complete repertoire of this endangered street football. With another style, Camavinga also raised his voice, a wonderful gaming dealer who combines the present. The team has taken the air in record time. And Rodrygo removed the silencer from his game and put his sprint at the level of Vinicius'.

With the win assured, Ancelotti made wardrobe policy. He gave hope to the quarry by giving minutes to Blanco and Sergio Santos; He consoled Isco and Lucas Vázquez, who aspired to more in the duel (the first closed the set), and gave Jovic ten minutes so as not to abuse Benzema's physique, which before leaving, reached the double with a goal that portrays well the moment in which he lives: he controlled his back, without it being possible to determine if it happened by chance or by duende, and his subsequent shot touched two Mallorca defenders before ending in network. Now he feels capable of putting a medicine ball into a golf hole.