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"I hit her with my soul because I had no gas left." It was more than a goal. It was a colossal chest with Morales when he already had his heart in his bones. The Levant was almost 80 minutes of resistance when its commander and captain ventured to the left, enabled by Varane. In legal position he stepped on the area followed by Modric. Suddenly, the ball, bounced, stampeded towards the visiting net. Courtois was disturbed, too contemplative as the missile glorified by the nearest squad of the Belgian goalkeeper.
Despite the hesitation of Courtois it was a great goal. The undisputed testament of a game well played by Madrid except in the last section. Until then there was plenty of fog. Since Hazard's injury - a blow to the right ankle - he lacked the government he had. Madrid staggered, Morales sent him to the canvas and no longer knew how to react.
LEV
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RMA
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Aitor, Miramón, Postigo, Toño García, Bruno González, Morales (Pablo Martínez, min. 80), Nikola Vukcevic, Campaign, Enis Bardhi, Mayoral (Sergio León, min. 87) and Roger (Gonzalo Melero, min. 66).
Real Madrid
Courtois, Varane, Marcelo, Sergio Ramos, Carvajal, Modric (Federico Valverde, min. 80), Casemiro, Kroos, Isco (Lucas Vázquez, min. 72), Benzema and Hazard (Vinicius Junior, min. 66).
Goals
1-0 min. 78: Morales.
Referee
Alejandro José Hernández Hernández
Roger (min. 34), Sergio Ramos (min. 9) and Casemiro (min. 70).
Stadium: Ciutat de Valencia
Without remedy, Madrid left Valencia with an unexpected scourge that leaves him distraught at the alpine week ahead, with appointments with Manchester City and Barcelona, the leader who next Sunday will leave in Chamartín with two points of advantage . Two days of aúpa just after the league encounters with Celta and Levante and the skating cup with the Royal Society.
Except for Fede Valverde, nothing was saved in Orriols Zidane. LaLiga was never a simple stop for the French coach, enthusiastic follower of the domestic tournament. Fervor that seems to have infected its players. In Valencia, before a bizarre Levante as always, Madrid put tenacity from Sergio Ramos to Hazard.
Until the final blow, the Madrid captain and Varane dried Roger and Borja Mayoral, Paco López's daggers. A problem cleared. The Levante works better when it attacks than when it defends. His battering rammed, everyone found Hazard, a constant threat to the granota. Kroos and Marcelo came to the Belgian's call on the left side, and Benzema was also punctual. Hazard, quickener despite his recent comeback, not always so many partners. Then, the spaces are reduced in his sector and the man is forced to avoid comrades and rivals. All in all, the former Chelsea player was the backbone player of the visiting vanguard.
To Hazard's thread, before the quarter of an hour Aitor had already accentuated the statistic that distinguishes him: there is no goalkeeper with more pit in the championship. The rivals usually riddled the granota goal, the result of being the first watchman of a set more sewn ahead than behind, where this day he had to tie the debutant Bruno.
The same is true for the adversary. Rarely shivers the Levante. He did not do so either against Madrid, despite suffering several stages of harassment. Without Rochina, only Campaña was a refuge for those of Paco López, in need of some dose of the ball to shake the Real. When Roger and Borja Mayoral did not win their assaults, Levante had no other relief than Campaña or the Macedonian Bardhi, Zalamero soccer players with the ball. In Orriols, until the final anguish, the pedestrian and abusive Madrid did not appear with the air game of the previous day against Celta. A much better articulated Real passed through Valencia, with a larger repertoire. What should be usual if the ball passes through the feet of Kroos, Marcelo, Isco, Modric, Hazard, Benzema ...
A song by Aitor in a simple fist clearance was about to be hunted by Casemiro. The local goalkeeper was finer in two fencing duels with Benzema and Hazard, who lacked the same as Madrid: fang. In the period of drought Benzema, Real Madrid needs a consortium to find the goal. He did not find it in Orriols, where he had football, but he did not mallet despite his waves on the granota goal. Not even before an opponent forced to resist in his ranch, facet for which he is not armed. Only the second act arrived, with Madrid already more unleashed, Morales - a substitute in recent times - and his soldiers began to drip against each other.
At that time Hazard was injured, who left with a disturbing limp for whites. Coincidentally or not, when the Belgian collapsed Madrid and Levante came up, already looser for kickbacks. Roger had Bardhi in the goal-waiting room, but the carpanta scorer inside the battering team could. The Levante no longer just clenched his jaw in front of his goalkeeper Aitor. The team already had horizons with a more relaxed Real Madrid over the minutes.
So high were the Catalans that Morales nailed the goal of his life and burst a Real that no longer took off with Vinicius, Lucas and Valverde, Zidane's final resources. In red alert, that routine Madrid emerged again with no other vocation than a waterfall from centers to the sky without any look. And without amendment, Real Madrid left Valencia in awe. For what happened in the last league and coperos challenges and for what awaits you right at the most faltering moment.
Zidane, about Hazard's ankle injury: "Doesn't look good"
All the alarms at Real Madrid jumped when in the 65th minute Eden Hazard began to limp ostensibly on the grass. After a fight with Miramón, of the Levant, which had gone quite unnoticed, the Belgian retired with a bad face to the bench, just before the week that can define the white season, with Manchester City and Barcelona waiting. "It's a blow on an ankle," said after the meeting Emilio Butragueño, who did not want to speculate on the presence of the white seven on Wednesday in the first leg of the Champions League and on Sunday's classic. More pessimistic was Zidane: “It seems that it is on the injured ankle [the right]. It doesn't look good. ”
Hazard reappeared last Sunday against Celta after almost three months out for an ankle fissure. His remarkable performance dispelled all doubts about his physical condition. Also his hyperactivity predicted that the Belgian was about at the decisive moment. Hazard's first season in Madrid is filling up with physical problems. A muscle injury caused him to miss the beginning of the course. He did not play until September 14 and two months later his ankle fissure came before the PSG. In total, the Belgian has lost 20 official matches adding the one that was absent for the birth of his son in October.
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