Villarreal shaves Madrid

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Madrid launched in recent weeks the balloon was punctured.

It was caused by Villarreal, an apologist for the touch.

He first clasped the ball and completely unplugged Real.

When in the second period a more crowded and determined Madrid emerged, another Villarreal, in its enchironada version, but just as effective.

With one suit and another, a rival capable of blinding a Madrid that was losing goals.

This time, without the ball first and without shots later, a Real stiffer than expected, the first Real of the course to stay dry.

At Villarreal, even the utility player has the pitch censored.

From end to end, from the goalkeeper Rulli to the striker Alcácer, they all develop with an extraordinary cachaça.

The ball only receives cuddles, no one has it at risk of sprain.

Pass to pass, temple to temple, rubbed to rubbed, Emery's team shaved Ancelotti's.

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Real MadridCourtois, Nacho, Federico Valverde, Alaba, Eder Militao, Modric (Hazard, min. 72), Casemiro, Marco Asensio (Isco, min. 80), Rodrygo (Eduardo Camavinga, min. 45), Vinicius Junior and Benzema VillarrealRulli, Juan Foyth (Mario, min. 85), Pau Torres, Alberto Moreno, Albiol, Coquelin (Moi Gómez, min. 57), Parejo, Capoue, Alcácer (Boulaye Dia, min. 57), Yeremy Pino (Trigueros, min. 83) and Arnaut Danjuma (Rubén Peña, min. 83)

Goals Referee Jesús Gil Manzano Yellow cards Vinicius Junior (min. 39), Coquelin (min. 54) and Moi Gómez (min. 69)

Madrid went and did not go, always mentioned in the ring of the yellow area.

Sometimes Rodrygo would cogiate on his own, others, if perhaps Asensio.

Or he squeezed Benzema on his side.

Never a choral pressure, energetic and with a bite.

It was not enough for whites to stand like stalactites in front of their adversaries.

That doesn't deter frost players like Pau, Parejo, Capoue ... Tracking ten shadows is equally boring and exhausting.

If there is no take away, everything is a nuisance for the dispossessed of the ball.

In the hammock Villarreal, absolutist with the ball from 4-3-3 on offense and 4-4-2 on retreat. The Real did not ventilate by the gutters, limited by the profile of Valverde and Nacho, the sides recruited by Ancelotti. There was also no aid for Casemiro, because Asensio - behind Benzema's back in a 4-2-3-1 - is not distinguished by pulling hoe. Each braid of the visitors disconnected the locals a little more, on alert for an adventure from the skilled Danjuma. The Dutchman slipped between Asensio and Valverde and his cross shot was deflected by Courtois to a corner with the tips of his left glove. There were not many warnings for the goalkeepers, even less for Rulli, much more active with his feet than with his mittens. But the command was Villarreal, cut in the final zone by the loss of his best jackal, Gerard Moreno.It was difficult for the team to give Alcácer a thread and Pino was not quite right in the terminal phase. On the other side, a mismatched center from Rodrygo sent Rulli flying as the ball went out. No more.

It took Madrid a long time to understand the needs of the game.

Back from the intermission, Camavinga —legs and verve, although more imprecise than in previous days— took over from Rodrygo, as subdued as the rest of his colleagues.

But more significant must have been Ancelotti's intramural rapapoor.

Another Real.

Another synchronicity when pressing, another conspiracy, more conviction.

Another march

From the irrelevant Valverde of the first act, to a Valverde already launched. There were already pickets to swipe and Villarreal, so hypnotic at first, no longer pulled the fan. Madrid put the march that Emery likes the least, forcing a round trip. Militão had the goal after a free-kick by Asensio, but the header went off. It was about seeing how long the new scale would last for Madrid. Emery had to intervene shortly before time. Just after Alcácer and Pau did not hole by a hair, the Basque coach withdrew Coquelin and Alcácer himself in favor of Moi Gómez and Dia. Villarreal were looking for the first Villarreal. In the tracking, at times he managed to anesthetize the Real again, but it was already a less expansive group. He played greater refuge in the mountain range itself and to Madrid, already with Hazard enlisted with Asensio,Benzema and Vinicius, it cost him a world to probe the goalkeeper Rulli.

The boys that the rejuvenated Albiol wisely trained were barricading themselves in order and rolling up their sleeves.

Isco found a crack, and in luck he least dominates.

A header from Malaga put Villarreal's Argentine goalkeeper into orbit.

It was the first time all night, and the clock read 82 minutes. Hazard was agitating Madrid, located near Benzema, far from the shores.

With the people exhausted, there was only a punctual call of the bugle left, some individual outburst from the Madridistas.

It did not arrive and Villarreal managed to freeze Madrid, first with the ball handcuffed, then with the padlocked blind.

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