Real Madrid stays halfway

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In Vila-real there was everything except goals.

And a match without goals is not always two yawns.

Not at all.

At La Cerámica, in a duel underlined from the start by the arbitration desertion in several plays, Villarreal first set the pace against a Real without flight.

An absolute turn meant that in the second half Madrid, already launched, had their opponent groggy.

Rulli and the posts trimmed the leader.

VLLVillarreal

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Rulli, Juan Foyth, Pau Torres, Alfonso Pedraza (Estupiñán, min. 73), Albiol, Chukwueze (Yeremy Pino, min. 73), Parejo, Iborra (Trigueros, min. 66), Alberto Moreno, Arnaut Danjuma (Boulaye Dia, min. 66) and Giovani Lo Celso (Aurier, min. 86)

RMA Real Madrid

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Courtois, Alaba, Eder Militao, Marcelo (Nacho, min. 82), Dani Carvajal, Federico Valverde (Modric, min. 77), Kroos, Casemiro, Vinicius Junior (Hazard, min. 81), Marco Asensio (Rodrygo, min. 77) and Bale (Jovic, min. 73)

goals

Referee

Jose Maria Sanchez Martinez

Yellow cards Juan Foyth (min. 22), Eder Militao (min. 22), Marco Asensio (min. 28), Bale (min. 46), Albiol (min. 50) and Casemiro (min. 87)

A good game was marked at the beginning by two comrades, those referees who abound so much and who make a football that they don't even understand more and more incomprehensible.

The greater the aid they have, the greater the hubbub.

In Vila-real it was the turn of José María Sánchez Martínez and Ignacio Iglesias Villanueva.

And the two, the first as a referee and the second as a VAR confidant, gave the song.

They let a blow from Albiol pass to Vinicius, who blocked his way with his forearm on his face inside the area.

Then, two longuis before a repellent ball from Carvajal to the face of Lo Celso, who was on the canvas two meters from the madridista.

And both, Sánchez and Iglesias, refrained before an alarming ironing by Asensio to an ankle by Iborra and another slap to Vinicius, this time by Parejo.

Too many pardons, especially in these chaotic times in which any stupidity is sanctioned.

Between sobada and arbitral sobada, luckily, at La Cerámica there was also football.

And not the bad one.

Two meetings.

The one in the first act was best governed by Emery's cadre.

After the truce, Madrid reigned completely.

From the start, Villarreal had Chukwueze as a vector.

An ordeal for Marcelo, who was never a sentinel and less near the sunset.

The Nigerian, skilled at leaving opponents in the gutter but not very clinical in closing plays, kept Real in check until Casemiro, excellent as a riot police officer, came to the aid of Marcelo and Vinicius, who is not an artist without a pick and shovel .

On the same shore, but in the opposite direction, the Brazilian went from stir to stir.

Bale still screeching, only he opened routes for Ancelotti's men.

Young and impetuous, Vinicius, who is already being presented with a minefield by his opponents, does not want to provoke guerrillas with a few drills.

He lacked nerve so that Foyth, carded soon, did not resist him as a bailiff.

A shot by Danjuma to the right post by Courtois was the main yellow warning.

Little by little, Villarreal seduced the ball and Madrid reverted to the role of resistance.

He only required the Belgian in a raw shot by Alberto Moreno, but his rival charged and charged, lowered in the area due to the absence of Gerard Moreno, as Real de Benzema was nostalgic.

Casemiro and Militão supported the scaffolding.

Just as the curtain fell on the first act, Madrid found Bale, until then an outsider, logical after 168 days without coexistence in the field.

Casemiro quoted him long and before the Welshman Rulli interposed.

A foreboding move.

After the truce, the local team hung on the Argentine goalkeeper, a dam for Bale, above all.

Gearshift

With another march, with ambition, without anyone noticing PSG, Madrid swallowed Villarreal.

There were no more crumbs of Chukwueze.

Parejo was not Parejo.

Everything was abrasive for Emery's team, permeable before Madrid had grown.

Rulli was the only clothesline.

He first got in the way of Bale, an emergency striker all day, and then repelled a left-footed shot from the Welshman off the crossbar.

It also frustrated Vinicius, who did not hole out in a fencer duel with the goalkeeper after a shot from Valverde to Parejo.

Emery had to intervene with the changes.

The team needed water carriers.

But it turns out that the visiting substitution wheel also arrived and the clash was balanced in the last section.

The Real lost gas and its rival found greater calm.

And that on the verge of closure, Jovic threw a Vaseline at Rulli that crashed into the crossbar.

The rejection was Nacho, whose shot was scared away by Aurier, under sticks and with his knees anchored to the grass.

A double jump start for the yellows.

Frustrating for the Whites, who, due to their eagerness and chances in the second period, fell short.

Winks of football: the match between the highest scoring team at home and the most productive on foreign soil ended without bingo.

Three

: Rulli, Gerard Moreno and Benzema.

Explicable.

Not so much about the umpteenth arbitration entanglement that has the entire football sector mired in a colossal gibberish.

They better not try to explain themselves.

Things could get even more complicated.

It is no longer a question of good and bad referees.

Even they are victims of the system and the perpetual changes in regulatory interpretation.

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