The inexhaustible trio

They are a trio to appear in soccer encyclopedias but they are still bent on completing more and more pages. Casemiro, Toni Kroos and Luka Modric, the most recognizable white medullary of this century with those three Champions and they resist losing force. Kroos scored a goal from Kroos to Valencia and with that the trident of midfielders reaches 75 goals for Madrid: 21 for the German, 26 for Modric and the one who is, curiously, the furthest from the opposing goal, Casemiro (28).

Media tastes and fans sometimes reward the novelty and punish the widely seen, but the ability to go producing between these three convincing the one they have to convince, Zidane, is still valid. Y They are heading to 1,000 games as madridistas. Adding up their service sheets, 942 come out (Modric adds 371, Kroos follows and Casemiro finishes with 266). Almost nothing. A sock inexhaustible.

But the historical statistics do not win games. there are others that explain more. Between the three, Kroos, Modric and Case gave 224 good passes yesterday. All Valencia, substitutes included, 337. An indicator between neon lights that Madrid's midfield dominated the game at will. Racic, Soler, Guedes and Wass were luxury spectators.

Like the Rolling

Old rockers who do not give in to fashions and who form the almost perfect band. Casemiro is the perfect drummer, Kroos is a virtuoso a la Yngwie Malsmteen who misses not a note on the guitar and Modric acquires that ground, in his case at his feet, that the greats have on the microphone. That voice that improves with time, that is tinged with nuances. The Croatian continues to show them. One day he makes you a pure midfielder and the next he leads the attack and sees goal, as in the Camp Nou Classic, his last substitution by pure technical decision and not based on a scheduled rest. He is 35 years old, Kroos has also passed thirty (31) and Casemiro will be 29 in eight days. In art, age, as the almost octogenarian Rolling Stones would say, is just a number.

The Casemiro-Kroos-Modric master formula, unlike that of Coca-Cola, has no secrets. Everyone knows it but, there is the merit, it is still in vogue and working …