Real Madrid took a giant step after defeating Espanyol by the smallest difference. With horrible football, little depth in attack and with Courtois being important at crucial moments of the match, the set of Zinedine Zidane He is placed as a solo leader, depending on themselves to achieve the final goal of achieving the national league championship in Spain.
Madrid did not play well. He was a little bland, predictable, tiresome, and very slow in his offensive transition. His circulation of the ball was very horizontal and that is why he could hardly generate clear scoring chances. Espanyol, which has been a disaster all season, with many changes of coach and a very limited staff, surprised with these transitions to space in the first quarter of an hour, taking Madrid by surprise when they left with excessive confidence after meeting the result of Barcelona.
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But that has been the Madrid of the entire season; a very reliable team in defense, which is a rock in its own field and that above has enough talent to carry out the games. He controls situations, he has several players in a remarkable individual state and he knows how to manage his game according to the different moments of need of the game.
Madrid does not like it, it is not spectacular and it could have a different game plan that makes it more attractive in relation to the squad it has, but Zidane designed the game like this, if very practical, to carry out an exercise of collective concentration and to know what was at stake.
After the break and the moment that all the teams live in terms of the pace and the little confidence that can exist due to the external that is lived at the global level, today is trying to go winning, surviving and know what the parties ask for and the rivals opposite. There will be another time to look for the weary preciousness of the supposedly subjective spectacle in a profession that is about competing, which is a competition and seeks to win, the rest are fables of the taste of each one.
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But without a doubt, Madrid understood that it was being played. The game matured, he worked accordingly, he waited for his moment and then delivered the final blow to put the ground in between. Benzema and ’10’ more. The French did it again. He left his infinite quality in evidence and gave a heel that can be worth a league if Madrid ends the task in six more games.
Whatever he does, Karim will always have his detractors who will tell him that he is very bad for his supposed lack of goal, despite being the team’s top scorer in all competitions this season with 22 goals scored. He does everything and does everything well. Score, assist, play, match and make life easier for your teammates. In such closed football, which is played in smaller and smaller spaces and where the teams are staggered in a better way, the forwards have to understand that they must contribute in other scores of the game, and Benzema does it and understands it better than anyone else.
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Madrid does not play well, but it wins, it is regular and it understands better than anyone that the philosophy that must prevail in soccer at this level is to win, because soccer is competition and Madrid, has spent a lifetime competing better than Nobody, that’s why he is where he is, very close to winning a new league title.
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