Two Madrid and a single Benzema tie with América (2-2)

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With much less heat in San Francisco than in the Spanish tureen, Madrid's second summer game left two different catalogs.

Carlo Ancelotti started the classic and endless dictionary of Casemiro, Kroos, Modric and Benzema.

And, after the break, he turned to the young muscle guard in the middle (Tchouameni, Camavinga, Ceballos and Valverde) completed again with Hazard in the center of attack.

The second unit was energetic, cooked up a good number of opportunities and deserved more than a draw against América (2-2), but without Benzema, life is something else.

Whoever is behind him.

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Andriy Lunin, Nacho (Eder Militao, min. 45), Rüdiger (Jesús Vallejo, min. 59), Ferland Mendy (Alaba, min. 45), Lucas Vázquez (Vinícius Tobias, min. 65), Modric (Federico Valverde, min. 45), Casemiro (Dani Ceballos, min. 45), Kroos (Aurelien Tchouameni, min. 45), Marco Asensio (Hazard, min. 45), Benzema (Rodrygo, min. 45) and Vinicius Junior (Camavinga, min. Four. Five)

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Ochoa (Óscar Jiménez, min. 31), Emilio Lara (Diego Valdés, min. 59), Salvador Reyes, Jorge Sánchez (Jürgen Damm, min. 59), Sebastián Cáceres, Miguel Layún, Alejandro Zendejas (Richard Sánchez, min. 59 ), Pedro Aquino (Bruno Valdez, min. 59), Jonathan (Álvaro Fidalgo Fernández, min. 59), Henry Martin (Jonathan Rodríguez, min. 59) and Federico Viñas (Román Martínez, min. 59)

Goals

0-1 min.

4: Henry Martin.

1-1 min.

21: Benzema.

2-1 min.

54: Hazard.

2-2 min.

81: Alvaro Fidalgo Fernandez.

Yellow cards Casemiro (min. 34) and Dani Ceballos (min. 51)

The Frenchman eagerly took his first 45 minutes of the course after the extra vacation permit.

He took away his legañas, scored a great goal, sent a right hand to the crossbar and was in all of them.

When the intermission came, he ran towards the referee to claim more discount.

The preseasons serve to prepare the future and also to confirm the past.

It wasn't necessary, but it took just a few minutes for Madrid to feel how life changes with his

.

The Frenchman, absent from the Whites' debut in last Saturday's classic (0-1), returned where he left off in May.

He was the alarm clock at a lazy start for Madrid, as if they were playing in the middle of the Spanish morning and not in the late-night San Francisco.

Henry Martín punished Ancelotti's boys as soon as they started and the threat from América, with many substitutes, continued in that initial stretch, with Lunin under the sticks and Rüdiger as central defender on the right -together with Nacho- after acting as a surprising left back against the Barcelona.

All until Benzema activated his particular lever.

He received on the left side, scanned the defense and resolved quickly: a diagonal to the front, a wall with Asensio, and a curved and sharp shot that dismounted Memo Ochoa, that veteran goalkeeper (37 years old) who had his moment in the Malaga and Granada in the past decade.

The draw helped temper Madrid who, with the usual three in the middle (Casemiro, Kroos and Modric), began to tame America.

But always with Benzema as the beginning and the end.

For the goal and to sew the game.

Everything went through him.

He had 45 minutes on the clock and did not want to waste them.

He was fine.

Like when he received on the edge, he ticked left-right to dispatch two defenders and send it to the crossbar.

The 'rock and roll' of the second part

The break brought another Madrid and Ancelotti described it in his own way: “The first part was more controlled, the second part was more

”.

At the moment, the Italian does not mix the formulas in the center of the field.

Unlike against Barça, from the start they played their honoris causa (Casemiro, Kroos and Modric) and then their drums (Tchouameni, Camavinga, Valverde) plus a fine Ceballos and Hazard again as a false nine.

Back, the coach clarified that his starting left back is still Mendy (starting against America), but he continued with the tests.

He wanted to see Rüdiger in central and relocated Alaba to the left flank in the second half.

The result was a dynamic Madrid with a lot of pressure.

With more volume, what would Carletto say.

If he initially backed off as soon as he couldn't steal fast, the second version continued to push.

He was not lacking in opportunities, Hazard scored the second with a penalty (Reyes' number 206! tripped Lucas Vázquez), but Benzema was no longer there, even though the Belgian was not out of tune in that display of mobility.

The French hit the game and hit the goal.

And with the result open, former Whites youth squad player Álvaro Fidalgo took advantage of a moment of indecision, entered the area and took a slice of debutant Vinicius Tobías' fledgling on the right side to get a maximum penalty that seemed excessive.

Lunin stopped Fidalgo's first pitch, but it didn't take VAR to catch him with both feet too far down the line.

The second attempt was touched by the Ukrainian, but it equalized.

White's chances continued, however, Benzema had long since left.

Madrid's next appointment will be against Juventus at dawn from next Saturday to Sunday (4:00, La 1).

The starting eleven, dress rehearsal for the European Super Cup on August 10 against Eintracht, will look a lot or all like the one he took out in the Champions League final.

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