We will have to grab the epic and Santiago Bernabéu and the magical nights and the scenic fear. It will be necessary to do it and it is likely that as the days go by and the meeting will come from next Wednesday, the drums begin and the hope does their job of emptying the memory. We will have to do it, and we will, without a doubt, but now it sounds for science fiction, to which a utopia is requested, an impossible to a team that is not trained for great deeds. It may not for the little ones either.
ANDThe Artet ArsenalOh, above all, Declan Rice It was much better than the real Madrid Throughout the game, with more football, more ideas, better pitchers, more personality, more everything. ANDl Madrid He has been moving forward, but without hiding that every step he took was an exaggerated effort. But he gave it for more or less good if he didn’t cross Barcelona. In London, in the first leg of the Champions rooms, he stopped in drying and now he will have to rebuild his horizon and find real solutions. Until now, it was worth keeping throwing because it still had time.
However, the marker in the Emirates Indicates that it begins to be late. Madrid does not have resources to compete at the highest level in Europe or if you have them, they have not worked. Rodrygo and Vinicius’s game was two shadows, two missing players. Zero dribbling made the two most skilled soccer players on the team. Rodrygo was replaced ten minutes before the end; Vinicius endured until the game ended. It didn’t matter much. The Brazilian has had bright moments, but their inconsequential games are weighing more, a qualifier that costs to associate with the most energetic player of the Champions League.
Only Bellingham
Madrid attacked very little. When he did it was when Bellingham gave the switchlight the light for a moment and found Mbappé. Especially in the first half, on the best occasion of Ancelotti: a deep ball from Bellingham to the French ‘career, which did not cross the ball enough. Then, in the second half, a shot to the side of the network, after another Bellingham pass.
That was the production of the team with Kylian, Vinicius, Rodrygo and Bellingham. The only thing he knew was to find Mbappé twice in speed, but nothing more, not an offensive idea or an act of rebellion, someone who thought of the collective game, that syntagma of which the team has dispensed with this course. Because yes, there has been a defensive attitude problem, but when focusing there, it has been ignored that Real Madrid has played very little football this season.
Saka attacks first
And eThe arsenal made him pay. He controlled the match from minute one and only released that control a few minutes in which Real Madrid tried long and shallow possessions to sleep the rival. Arsenal’s domain was overwhelming, but not overwhelming, with Saka hurting the side that defended Alaba. Their centers to the area did not find a miracle auctioneer.
Yeah, Alaba was on the left and Valverde on the right, looking for more security. He gave a little the same.
It is true that, on clear occasions, the first part could be matched. It is true that if we measure the game for that, it would be a mirage.
Mirages are over
In the second half, there were no more mirages or possibility of thinking that hope could be extended a little more. There was no way because Declan Rice took his rifle to walk there or the most excellent Courtois, the one that demonstrated several times that it is the best, could prevent the goals from falling. There was a order not to make fouls to the edge of the area, but neither did it follow the letter. Alaba made one and Declan Rice scored a spectacular goal, with a tremendous effect to the ball to overcome the barrier and turn to enter the goal.
Declan Rice, sniper
That got bad. Madrid no longer existed, if in the first half it had ever arrived, in this second disappeared, the arsenal rose the revolutions and, then, yes, the storm and white lso arrived, without umbrellas. They were like the sailors who cover holes in a ship that sinks: now here, praise; Now here, Courtois; Under the line, Bellingham. That could not last and Declan Rice, a name for the black legend of Madrid (which has long been adding names), nailed a ball in the squad.
The game was at a point that up to two goals against it was good news. But Merino made a great center forward and left Madrid with hardly to grab.
Ancelotti’s first changes were to take Lucas Vázquez and then Fran García.