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Where the most reliable scorer of LaLiga (Messi) did not reach one of the most hesitant against the rival goal (Vinicius) and one of the most alternate attackers among the substitutes (Mariano). The first with the involuntary reject of Piqué and the second with the curtain downhill. Two unexpected goals to air a classic that returned Madrid to the lead. A real stiff and timid at the beginning, but energetic and authoritarian in the second half, when he released flanges, he fell off and ended up fainting his rival. In front, a Barça carrying the ball but agitated by Messi gave way to a club so melted and orphaned of the ball that not even ten had horizons.
RMA
two
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0
BCN
Real Madrid
Courtois, Varane, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Carvajal, Casemiro, Kroos, Isco (Modric, min. 78), Vinicius Junior, Federico Valverde (Lucas Vázquez, min. 85) and Benzema (Mariano, min. 90).
Barcelona
Ter Stegen, Piqué, Umtiti, Nelson Semedo, Alba, Busquets, Frenkie De Jong, Arthur Melo (Rakitic, min. 80), Vidal (Braithwaite, min. 68), Messi and Griezmann (Ansu Fati, min. 80).
Goals
1-0 min. 70: Vinicius Junior. 2-0 min. 91: Mariano.
Referee
Antonio Miguel Mateu Lahoz
Carvajal (min. 18), Vinicius Junior (min. 10), Alba (min. 18) and Messi (min. 84).
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium
At first, I wanted to walk Barça. And I wanted to run Madrid. Two different routes and the same destination: nothing, usually. Without march, the azulgrana processed the shock pending the dictation of Messi. With no truce, the Real Madrid players made Vinicius. Messi almost took advantage of the Setien team, which put the little spice of the first act. Griezmann did not hit after a tie between Rosario and the pulgoso Jordi Alba. And Courtois covered the guard wonderfully before 10, first on the right shot and then in a fencing match after a geometric assistance from Busquets. Courtois also won against Arthur, exhausted against the Belgian after a marathon race. From Ter Stegen there were no clues. At least with your hands. With Vinicius to the drum, until after the intermission, there were only footprints of the German.
With Messi in the waiting room and Madrid without fangs, even the white drumming the classic only had its grace on the label: that, a classic. Leaded with the ball, with Arthur and De Jong more willing to process than to adventure, Barça managed the duel with no other volume than that of his captain, refugee on the ropes waiting for his moment. Another issue is Vidal, an outsider. The Chilean would squeak both the touch-touch-touch and his stampedes his and her here and there. With Braithwaite again and Ansu Fati as a fellow, Barça has not just found the third player to play with Messi and Griezmann.
Indefinite at the beginning, the whole of Zidane barely had a story. Kroos returned, but without substance. The same as Isco and Benzema, lowered by the Madrid madridista, reduced to the endless accelerations of Vinicius. A high shot of Benzema was all the offensive production of the premises in the first act, with Chamartín as alert with Messi as with Mateu, to which he demanded the expulsion of Jordi Alba. A bite with Carvajal cost both the yellow card shortly before the Catalan crashed with Valverde and caused his demolition.
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Much less reel had the second half Barça, which no longer rocked with the ball, suddenly ruffled its flyers. The ball stuck out the Barça's tongue, which activated Madrid, much more sweeping than before the break.
More vigorous in each assault, Zidane's group already had another bite. Enough to threaten Ter Stegen. Primordial for Barcelona players with a flight stop and hand changed after a combined shot of Isco. Camouflaged of ram was the Malaga who fired the alarms again at the visiting ranch. His header was piqué under the crossbar. Madrid, with another rennet and more bone, was already another Madrid. Barça, without even the tedious support of the ball, was already another Barça. With the ball he has trouble attacking like never before; Without him he has no defense.
In full flood of the whites Setién intervened to give Braithwaite court instead of the dispersed Arturo Vidal. A blink took the Danish to hurry the firm Courtois. And just after, Vinicius, launched by Kroos, was planted for the umpteenth time in the Barca area. Piqué granted him meters deep and the Brazilian's shot, like the previous ones, didn't seem terminal either, but a rebound in Piqué left Ter Stegen sitting and overwhelmed. Winks of football. Although outside the carom Vinicius arrived where not even Messi, who does not need external help, could. Marcelo, with so many defensive crosses, got in time when the Argentine faced Courtois. Seien turned to both Braithwaite and Fati, but nothing altered the course of the encounter. Barça no longer had a pass and Madrid had such vibrations that even Mariano hit the goal.
In a team in which the goal is priceless, it turns out that on the day of big game, without Hazard, without Bale and with Benzema dry for months, Vinicius and Mariano helped who made more merits. Two atypical situations that crowned who already had a good time who had the game for the front: Madrid, the new leader of a League that will still have many curves for two teams that today are a shot in the air. In Europe and for the domestic championship. Some Messi manages with some frequency to cover what they lack (depth and defensive intention). Others need the entire guild to make up what they lack (a Leo). LaLiga will still have a lot of talk. At the moment, the dictation is white after a league victory in Chamartín in a classic that did not occur since the 2014-2015 academic year. And a local premiere for Zidane, which keeps theirs clinging to the championship. But he has as much cut as Setien's. Neither team deserves a strong bet, even though Madrid now sees Barça in the rearview mirror.
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