1:0 and Rüdiger as a striker

The Champions League, which so often brings salvation, also does not lead Madrid out of the labyrinth. Against the fifth team in the French league, defeated on the first day of the competition, this depleted version of the team reappeared, lacking performance, imagination and, ultimately, finishing. Many times they don’t have the best team or the most attractive football, but in the end they turn out to be right, and in this business it’s about goals. Now they don’t appear either. not even one of the two best in the world in the subject. Mbappe came in, the game was lost and this was not a decision. Neither he nor the team are in a good moment right now. Little was enough for Lille: discipline, courage and an exceptional footballer still under the radar of the greats, Zhegova, chiefly responsible for the Whites’ defeat, the first after 36 games, possibly due to the physical and emotional exhaustion of the derby. .

Ancelotti He brought together Tchouameni, Camavinga and Valverde in Lille, a ton of fiber at the services of Bellingham and Vinicius, and gave Endrick a place in the eleven for the first time. the other, with impressive anatomy, wore a large bullfighter badge. Muscular Madrid with a smaller lega problem that was not solved with the departure of Kroos, that German who, step by step, proved that the team is a vertebrate animal. The point is that The Madrid line-up was organized in a 4-4-2 formation, with Valverde and Bellingham opening positions, Tchuameni and Camavinga closing positions, and Vinicius and Endrick taking the lead. Also Militao and Rüdiger returned to their natural territories: Brazilian on the right, German on the left. The team lacks imagination. Genesio responded with the same caution: three central defenders and two full-backs with more movement in the defensive phase (in attack it changed to 4-4-2), the formation with which they started the season changed when they painted the clubs.

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The intersection of one strategy with another initially left a stable front without much progress, with the exception of a shot from Vinicius at the near post, which was hunted by Chevalier, another from Bellingham who looked for position and found a mole and Sprint by the Jamaican sprinter from Endrick, who, without making a break, with sheer speed, left behind the entire French defense and ended up firing into the body of Chevalier. Excellent for vertigo, excellent for abstinence.

Hand of Kamavanga

The Brazilian was the good news in the fight. The bad news was that the game did not go through Bellingham, the most original decision on the field. If he rules, Madrid will rule. This did not happen. Ancelotti’s team held the ball with some ease and panicked at times. David landed a stunning double header and kick, which Lunin heroically parried. temporary five-star status from last year when the team found gloves where a slap was expected.

Lille behaved very well against this foggy Madrid. He leveled the fight based on order and intensity, undeterred by the medals on Madrid’s chest. He stretched Kosovar Zhegrova when he could, pushed his full-backs and only needed to find Jonathan David with some frequency. one of those strikers who is not too big, not too good and not too fast, but has a sixth sense for being where and when they are needed in the penalty area.

The truth is that the first half was as flat as the dismal Metropolitan derby: Vinicius was blindsided on the left flank, Bellingham inactive, Valverde a striker left to his own devices and Tchouameni, as usual, timid. We can say that it is visible only to the eyes of the coach. From the stands one gets the impression that he is overly sociable. And two minutes before the end Camavinga, at the age of innocence, committed a clear punishment. intercepting Zhegrova’s free kick with his hand. Neither Mendy, nor Fran Garcia, who replaced him, nor the central defense, which was not there, could stop the German-Kosovar white nightmare. The penalty was warned by VAR, but David converted the spot-kick.

Not with Mbappe.

As things did not improve in the second half, Ancelotti abandoned his habit of delaying changes as long as possible. He eliminated Militao, delayed Tchouameni, surrendered himself to Modric in midfield and activated Mbappe’s nuclear warhead. who doesn’t want to miss a single minute of the Champions League. We must not forget that he regards Madrid as the shortest route to eternity. The team did not respond to therapy, and Ancelotti increased the dose: Guler for Camavinga. From double hinge to Modric’s mono-pivot.

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The truth is that the Italian filled the team with fantasy, but it continued sad, without arrival, without opportunities, without charm, without that impulse that saved him so many times when everything else failed. He had the ball, but he did not move either through the main routes, Mbappe and Vinicius, or through the secondary routes, Bellingham, Modric and Guler. The arithmetic did not deceive: zero chances, five cards. Loosely translated, they canceled the attack and rushed to defense. It wasn’t until the final five minutes that the unorthodoxy really attacked, with Rudiger scoring nine points. Chevalier took two goals from the German and another from Guler to bury this vulgar Madrid player. Now, in this Champions model that you’re still riding in the peloton, defeats are a concern. If you look at the classification (seventeenth), you will understand.

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