Penalties revive Madrid

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Real Madrid survived a bad afternoon in Vigo and took a victory that they did not fully deserve against a rival that at times found it ticklish.

The resolution was abrupt and fuels the controversy after a game with three penalties against the local team, which also had a goal disallowed at the request of video arbitration, the one that now barely enters what happens in the areas.

If the error is not rude, the referee who is on the field sends it.

The question is to discern the value of rudeness.

And meanwhile, the League ends with different ways and means of arbitration than those that were implemented when it began.

It is not that the regulations are different, but as if it seemed so.

This time it is Celta de Vigo who is complaining,

but the impact on the football debate is greater than one more tantrum from a mid-table team.

In Seville and Barcelona there are also complaints.

They were waiting for a stumble to feed their desire to join the League.

CELCeltic

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Matías Dituro, Javi Galán, Murillo, Kevin Vázquez, Joseph Aidoo, Fran Beltrán (Renato Tapia, min. 71), Nolito (Santi Mina, min. 71), Denis Suárez, Brais (Orbelín Pineda, min. 80), Aspas and Thiago Galhardo (Franco Cervi, min. 59)

RMA Real Madrid

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Courtois, Eder Militao (Nacho, min. 84), Alaba, Lucas Vázquez (Dani Carvajal, min. 60), Ferland Mendy, Modric (Federico Valverde, min. 73), Kroos (Dani Ceballos, min. 84), Casemiro, Marco Asensio (Rodrygo, min. 60), Vinicius Junior and Benzema

Goals

0-1 min.

18: Benzema.

1-1 min.

51: Nolito.

1-2 minutes

69: Benzema.

Referee

Pablo Gonzalez Fuertes

Yellow cards Javi Galán (min. 35), Thiago Galhardo (min. 39) and Murillo (min. 56)

It was a well-played match, pleasant to witness as could be expected from the board.

In it were Mendy and Benzema, two important contributions for Madrid.

In the slipstream of his striker, the leader made his way because he operated from

, warned of his top scorer stripes shortly after the game began with a header that went to the side of the net and transformed the penalty with ice in his veins that put forward his team, but mostly became undetectable when he worked as

.

Benzema was the

of Madrid at the dawn of a game that chained hits on one goal and another, a beautiful football spectacle.

Madrid scored just after the quarter hour.

By then Celta felt comfortable, but suffered for an action in which he was not threatened and in which Nolito brought down Eder Militão, who did not seem like a threat, in the local area.

It was a forward penalty, an imprudence.

Benzema's legs did not tremble against Dituro, an accredited

who beat himself to his right and saw the ball enter low and through the center of the goal, after an excellent deception by the shooter.

Celta had arguments to get up and found them in the positional attack, where they sought superiority with Brais and Nolito from the interior in very advanced positions.

He found a way to put together passes inside and along the way several options came to him from set pieces from the front to promote a high duel: Iago Aspas against Courtois, a magical left foot against a luxury mitt that took a remote-controlled attempt to the squad.

Celta wanted, who mixed the game well, voracious when recovering and firing in attack, patient to move the rival.

And the fuse usually catches fire if there is an abundance of dynamite.

Celta found it with a center from Nolito that Galhardo finished off at the post.

The ball walked along the goal line and slipped under the gaze of Aspas and Alaba.

Balaídos shouted the goal, Galhardo celebrated it,

He took off his shirt and earned the warning before the VAR, yes, ordered a stop.

Aspas had started from offside to accompany the action and the referees understood that he interfered with Alaba's attempt to reach the ball.

It was a celestial anticlimax, but Madrid, erratic with the ball if they did not find Benzema, paled.

The break did not reduce the pressure from the stands, fueled by some musical choice with a message.

, people sang, with Raphael in the background and the feeling that arbitration was damaging his team.

Celta returned to the field like a plane, unleashed, ambitious, on the right foot, like that of Javi Galán, who set up two fires with two centers.

In the first Nolito tied, in the second Galhardo almost scored.

Madrid was touched, but did not need football to rise.

Yes, a couple of penalties, which just unhinged Celtism.

The first exhibited Modric, who with a heel kick opened the sky-blue defense before Rodrygo, who had just entered the field, fell to Murillo, who did not seem to do much to knock him down.

“They told us that the penalties were not going to be called,” Ancelotti had lamented, absent from Balaídos due to covid, at the end of last November.

However, Dituro chose his right hand again and there he found Benzema's shot.

There was hardly any time or action to gauge the consequences of the episode: four minutes later Mendy went to the ground in a divided ball that was attended by Kevin Vázquez, who seemed to withdraw his leg in the last instance.

But the referee returned to the fateful point and the VAR is no longer in discussion.

Benzema repeated the position, but Dituro changed his mind and Madrid returned to command the scoreboard with 20 minutes to play.

The hubbub and the entrance of the refreshments stopped Celta for a few moments, before a final siege in which the leader suffered to raise his arms victoriously.

He also did it, without suffering warnings: Militão, Mendy, Casemiro and Modric will be able to line up the next day.

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