Real Madrid-Sevilla The VAR changes the League

La Liga in a minute and on a screen. Madrid had drawn a steep match, it was overturned on Sevilla's area and then came the big mess. Corner in favor of the Andalusians, Militao jumps backwards, the ball hits his shoulder and then his arm. Munuera does not whistle anything, Benzema leaves on the counterattack and Bono knocks him down. The VAR calls the referee and ends up signaling the first. One of those penalties of the new wave, of those caught with pins by a gum law. Madrid, which was already suspicious of a goal annulled by an offside of centimeters and a hand in the area of ​​Diego Carlos, will remove the complaints book. And he will be as right as Sevilla to deny it after so much swing of interpretation. This is how Madrid went from alleged first to second and thanks to a goal in discount. And so the League was back on the roof of Atlético. After the mother of all the days, everything remains the same.

With Hazard Zidane went to the second battle of England, that of Stamford Bridge, without learning from the first, that of Manchester. But start to get off the boat. The Belgian's was an improper alignment, like most since he arrived at Madrid. Because he abandoned himself when he shouldn't have, got injured when he shouldn't have, came back when he shouldn't have, played when he shouldn't have and laughed when he shouldn't. His only gift so far has been that of inopportunity. The public apology for his good humor in the midst of mourning did not save him from repeating against Sevilla, probably the most important game of the season. This time Zidane returned to Vinicius, a sawtooth goblin, and put himself in the hands of the four substitute defenders, one of the many supernatural phenomena that the team has experienced this year.

Neither was Lopetegui's answer heterodoxy, who came out without En Nesyri, who has given him 23 goals, or De Jong, his natural replacement. He put Papu Gómez, who has not been anywhere near what he seemed, on the left and Ocampos of nine fiction so as not to give a fixed target to the central Madrid.

The presence of Odriozola and Marcelo, careless in the retreat, turned Casemiro into the holy trinity: the third center-back, the first midfielder and the midfielder on duty.

From the start, Sevilla was Chelsea: high, numerous and aggressive pressure that forced Madrid to make long trips to the dead zone and a very high pace of play, knowing that Madrid is not up to a mambo. So the game woke up dyed red but with the threat of the Madrid counter, which is why Vinicius came out. In a pass from the Brazilian to Odriozola, who had a vertical takeoff, and a center of this that Benzema headed marked Madrid. A lightning bolt that the VAR extinguished due to an offending ankle of the Donostiarra.

Wind change

It wasn't worth the goal, but the throw seemed to have a psychological impact: lengthened Madrid and shrunk Sevilla. However, Lopetegui's team took the lead in an arty play. The second were Suso's short serve, Navas's center and Rakitic's left.. The art was put by Fernando, who came out with the Brazilian inside him, to resolve with the cold blood of a nine after sitting Casemiro in a mined area.

And from there, on the edge of the impossible, Madrid was released with the push of Modric, the locomotive of Odriozola, the overflow of Vinicius and the occurrences of Benzema, the monogoleador. Kroos was not heard from. In seven minutes Casemiro, Vinicius and Benzema were around the goal and proved that Sevilla is not made to defend aculated in their area. With much less has Zidane's team won games this season.

The white arreon

Madrid returned from the break a more emotional point and Sevilla, notably more hermetic. The game was already one-way, although Zidane's team, in onslaught mode, could not find a way out of the mess. So he applied two remedies as traditional as they were ineffective: long shots and lateral sendings. Bono took one out of the former from Modric and neither Nacho nor Casemiro hit the target, and the latter died in the Koundé-Diego Carlos duo. To get out of the drowning, Lopetegui put El Nesyri. So that the drum would not stop, Zidane de Miguel Gutiérrez y Asensio threw it. Before, Vinicius ran over before Bono and screwed up his shot, which touched the stick. More precise was Asensio, who in his first intervention killed the Sevilla goalkeeper with a shot on the fly. Kroos, already within the party, prepared the maneuver.

And with Madrid in charge came a launch that will last weeks of debate and that left the white team on the verge of KO. But there was still suspense. Hazard deflected a shot from Kroos to equalize and Casemiro was inches from victory in the final second. Madrid does not run out of extra lives.