Real Madrid: Ancelotti’s face says it all: Madrid is winning, but something is not working
Madrid goes to bed with the same points as Barça, but is plunged into a sea of doubts. You only have to look at Ancelotti’s face to understand that something is wrong with the white team, that he does not control the games and plays them with great difficulty. An Italian invented a system with Chuameni which even the player himself did not understand, and in the end he had to resort to his oldest solution – Luka Modric who won the match with a superb assist Vinicius. Of course, next week against Dortmund and Barca he will need more than the Croatian if he doesn’t want to get into trouble.
Modric is irreplaceable at 39 years and 41 days
The Croatian won the game with a superb pass to Vinicius and showed that he is a fundamental player for Real Madrid. Thank God they extended it! Because the white team at the beginning of the season does not show more football than Luca, who entered the history of Real Madrid at Balaidos as the oldest player to wear a Madrid shirt, is capable of showing. He surpassed Puskas’s record, set back in November 1965. The oldest, although he looks like a child, is already Luka, who can set the bar in mid-July at almost 40 years old. That is, unless he renews his contract for another year. , because for football He deserves it, and Madrid, in addition, needs it.
Mbappe is approaching 40 or 50 years old
Mbappe tracked the goal he scored in Valdebebas this week in Balaidos and uploaded it to his social networks. The Celta players shouldn’t follow him because they left him two meters out and looked up after Camavinga recovered when releasing the ball. And, of course, Kilian included her in the lineup. Mbappe’s best goal as a Real Madrid player who is slowly becoming popular, although there is still a lot of room for improvement. The Frenchman has scored eight goals this season without breaking a sweat and, with an average of 0.6 goals per game, he could easily reach 40 or 50 goals this season.
Bellingham doesn’t score
Bellingham brings football to Real Madrid from anywhere on the field, even on the right flank, but the Englishman does not score goals. Last year there were already ten of them, but this course has not yet been published. And although his main mission is not to score goals, little by little he begins to despair. The best example was in the 32nd minute when he got angry at Vinicius when the Brazilian chose to play alone rather than look to his right to pass him.
Bellingham continues to give Madrid a tremendous amount of energy, but it doesn’t shine like it did last year. He sets foot in this area less than a year ago, and they don’t find him like they did then. And while he remains an important player, he wants more. He wants goals. He was looking to make it in the individual game as soon as the second half began, but his final shot went wide. Ancelotti, aware that he needed confidence, came off the bench to applaud him with open arms.
A strange movement when releasing the ball… and Rodrigo is eliminated from the perfect eleven players
Ancelotti continues to think about the team in search of the best version of it, although sometimes the challenges can be strange and dangerous. It took Madrid’s players 25 minutes to figure out how Tchouameni should position himself when releasing the ball and in defense. Carlo wanted the Frenchman to get between the centre-backs and start the game, but defended in a 4-4-2 formation. The Madrid players understood this poorly, as in the first minutes of the game they suffered one defensive inconsistency after another. Thank God Courtois is here, he never breaks down.
Another note left in the Madrid lineup was the replacement of Rodrigo. Carlo is leaning towards a 4-4-2 formation and the Brazilian is a big victim of the eleven.
Another save from Courtois to start winning the game
Madrid took the lead on the scoreboard thanks to Mbappe’s superb goal, but began to win the game where they almost always did – in their own zone. Courtois is a life insurer and he made a wonderful save as soon as the match started in a one-on-one with Williot, which he converted with his left foot. There is no more determined goalkeeper in the world than the Real Madrid goalkeeper.
Thibault was unable to do anything in the draw, but his confidence in the second half was life insurance.