Dembélé's pecks and Modric's loss

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Madrid celebrated its 120-year history by wearing a black shirt designed by the Japanese Yohji Yamamoto at the Bernabéu classic.

Quite a premonition.

Barcelona repeated with the senyera.

These are not good times in football for tradition and romanticism.

However, when the landscape gave way to the ball, the focus fell on two old-fashioned players: player Modric and winger Dembélé, although for very different reasons.

His performances symbolized the night: the bankruptcy of the leader, who was left in the most cruel way, and the rearmament on all fronts of Xavi's Barça, who placed two main beams for the future in a stadium, precisely, in reconstruction.

The location of the Croatian, as a false nine instead of Benzema,

RMAReal Madrid

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Courtois, Dani Carvajal (Mariano, min. 45), Eder Militao, Nacho (Lucas Vázquez, min. 62), Alaba, Federico Valverde, Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo (Marco Asensio, min. 63), Casemiro, Kroos (Camavinga, min. .45) and Modric

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Ter Stegen, Ronald Araújo, Alba (Alves, min. 85), Piqué, Eric Garcia, Busquets, Frenkie De Jong (Gavi, min. 70), Pedri (Nico González, min. 85), Aubameyang (Depay, min. 70 ), Ferrán Torres and Ousmane Dembélé (Adama Traoré, min. 79)

Goals

0-1 min.

28: Aubameyang.

0-2 min.

37: Ronald Araujo.

0-3 min.

46: Ferran Torres.

0-4 min.

50: Aubameyang.

Referee

Juan Martinez Munuera

Yellow cards Kroos (min. 21), Frenkie De Jong (min. 25), Busquets (min. 30), Modric (min. 62), Alba (min. 73), Camavinga (min. 81), Lucas Vázquez (min. . 87) and Nico González (min. 87)

The classic served to confirm on Ancelotti's board that there are absences that have no remedy no matter how many twists and turns he gives them.

After trying to replace the French with two pure forwards (Jovic and Mariano), three

(Isco, Asensio and Rodrygo) and resorting to Bale's third option (out of the call at the last minute due to back pain in four days before Wales plays for the World Cup), the new experiment at the top was Modric.

The move exposed Madrid like never before this season, even begging for mercy in the face of the rival triplet festival.

Carletto's blanket did not cover everything and the midfield was left out in the open even though Casemiro, Kroos, Valverde gravitated there, and the wingers Rodrygo and Vinicius lend a hand back.

On the field were the fittest healthy pieces of the men in black, but the Croatian's change of position helped to dismantle the Meccano.

The team was long, the pressure up (also with Kroos) failed, Modric's command was missing in the middle... Madrid's failure was multi-organ and Barcelona's government was absolute from the quarter hour of the match.

In the first sketches of the Barça surge, Xavi moved around the band making gestures to Dembélé, who was performing at that moment on the other side of the Castellana.

The culés began to rule, touch by touch, and the

He finished opening the channel to Madrid.

After half an hour, he faced Nacho, a false left-back due to Mendy's injury, like the wingers of a lifetime, said goodbye to him, placed a sensational cross, Alaba did not hit the clearance and Aubameyang beat Militão in the shot.

A while before, two separate shots from both had left the first stretches of Courtois, who in the preamble received the award for best player in February.

And, almost instantly, another center from Dembélé, this time from a corner, led to the 0-2 header from Araujo.

The Uruguayan came out as a solution to contain Vinicius in his area, but ended up celebrating on the contrary.

Barça's release after so many penalties showed how life changes with the new attacking hat-trick.

Dembélé took the first step, Aubameyang the second with his brace (he also added two assists) and Ferran Torres, despite the fact that he missed some one-on-one in the middle of the Barça rampage, put the icing on the cake.

With Dembélé, who continues to refuse to renew, Xavi decided to go down the middle street and get as much juice out of him as possible while he had him in the dressing room.

He already has nine assists.

And the other two, recruited in the winter market, accumulate nine and six goals, respectively.

Between the three of them they finished making the locals red in front of their fans, who attended stunned.

Ancelotti rectified the above mess at halftime (he took out Camavinga and Mariano for Carvajal and Kroos, and left Modric in the center, whom he had already returned after the 0-2) and placed three central defenders, but neither.

Or worse.

At 20 seconds, Torres missed a heads up and two minutes later hit another.

Aubameyang nailed the fourth.

“We want a little hand”, the Catalan fans demanded from the chicken coop.

did not arrive

There was no more consolation than that on the darkest night in Madrid this year.

For all.

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