Bellingham He threw himself to the ground, like Fran Garcíaand Mbappé He folded to take air. The Villarreal – Real Madrid in Ceramics And the players of Carlo Ancelotti They were looking for their livers and the oxygen that they lacked, exhausted, but satisfied with victory. The stadium of Villarreal It has always been a complicated field for the real Madridwhen it’s right, when it’s wrong and when it is without strength, like this time. But he won and has a lifetime of the world.
Asked Carlo Ancelotti An intelligent match and his people made a survivors’ game, one that has been seen in the white team so many times: a goalkeeper who would touch him and a striker who finishes better than anyone.
Deserved rest
And so, between a Courtois that in front of the Villarreal It seemed five centimeters higher and one Mbappé that did not forgive the two clear occasions he had, the real Madrid He solved a crucial match and now, finally in 2025, he can rest for a couple of weeks for the selections matches. Then the decisive section of the season will begin and, as he said Ancelottithey are in all fights, alive and with the optimism thrown. Now the real Madrid You have to take run, because everything will depend on which team you can see after this break. It looks good, but you need to upload a couple of steps and confirm that this effort and sacrifice will not be forgotten.
Suffered the real MadridAs I expected, although perhaps more than the account. If you always have a hard time entering the matches, fatigue did not help. He Villarreal He knew about the physical weakness of the rival and went for him, with decision and almost always overcome. Tchouaméni It was central as Asencio and Fran García and Lucas Vázquez They were in the band. None hobby the effort, but the real Madrid He only won a goal at the start was because Courtois He recovered his best form. It is being an irregular season that of the goalkeeper, not as decisive as other times. In front of the Villarrealhowever, it was the goalkeeper who save matches. What could not avoid was the goal of Foythanother ball stopped that the opponent ends at pleasure from the small area. This League He will decide for details and is not being the real Madrid A team very concentrated in these plays.
The goal confirmed what was seen in the field: that the Villarreal played and that real Madrid I suffered. I didn’t look good, because it was Courtois The one who was giving the face for the whole team.
Mbappé, with aim
But it appeared Mbappé. The French, without being dazzling, or being so at times, already exceeds 30 goals this season and in Ceramics He did what an elite team striker has to do when he is in trouble: putting the ones you have.
Two had the real Madridtwo isolated arrivals, but devastating for the rival and their trust. The two of them finished them Mbappé Each time with more anger, more and more desire and fighting all the details of football. The tie against the Athleticwhere he only left a play, he has changed the perspective: he will have to tighten his teeth and defend his own. And there is no better way than with goals.
The many of Mbappé they raided the game for the real Madridthat already had another rhythm. The team of Marcelino He lost the courage from the beginning and had to adopt another attitude. I already had to look back.
He recovered the fang again after the break. The local team knew that the minutes were going to weigh on the real Madrid And the second half began with the same will with which the clash had begun: enclosing the real Madrid and forcing to Courtois To wear arms and wingspan.
Modric changes the equipment
The encounter for a real Madrid that made the changes thinking about the breaks: Rüdiger by Asencio; Vinicius by Brahim… also went out to the field Modric And that was the best medicine because Croatian taught another way of defending: with the ball. Next to a Camavinga that is again the Camavinga which is expected so much, the real Madrid He left behind the worst minutes and began to see with hope that the clock approached its end. Valverde I kept running, like a Fran García plethoric in the physical or a Bellingham exhausted, who had his good times with the ball in the first part. But he lacks a continuity tad.
All the effort was worth it. This sprint is over. Now a respite and then, it is already life or death.