Straight
With three blows he sent Madrid to the canvas against a Celtic who lacked what the champion has left over: a strong hand in the areas.
The Scottish team started strong, had better phases than their rival and finished flat.
The law of Madrid, which wins, wins and wins by the good, the bad and the regular.
He had it all at Celtic Park, where he left with a resounding victory, a considerable scare due to Benzema's injury and a dose of optimism with Hazard, finally a relative, albeit a distant one at the moment, of the happy Hazard.
For happy, Kroos float and thrower of the best Real Madrid that was seen in Glasgow.
CLTCeltic
0
Hart, Juranovic, Carter-Vickers, Moritz Jenz, Greg Taylor, Joao Filipe (Sead Haksabanovic, min. 81), Liel Abada (Daizen Maeda, min. 45), Reo Hatate (Turnbull, min. 71), McGregor, Matt O 'Riley (Aaron Mooy, min. 71) and Georgios Giakoumakis (Kyogo Furuhashi, min. 71)
RMA Real Madrid
3
Courtois, Ferland Mendy, Eder Militao (Rüdiger, min. 45), Alaba, Dani Carvajal, Aurelien Tchouameni (Camavinga, min. 70), Modric (Marco Asensio, min. 79), Kroos, Federico Valverde, Benzema (Hazard, min. 29) and Vinicius Junior (Rodrygo, min. 79)
Goals
0-1 min.
55: Vinicius Jr.
0-2 min.
59: Modric.
0-3 min.
76: Hazard.
Referee
Sandro Schärer
Yellow cards Ferland Mendy (min. 9) and Daizen Maeda (min. 63)
Ancelotti is not for bagpipes.
Or maybe he just rewound last year's jeremiad with the Sheriff.
Celtic evokes something else, so in Glasgow the same ones who fought in the final in Paris with Tchouameni for Casemiro.
The bet, so headlined, did not take immediate effect.
The Scottish team, on the shoulders of that fan that makes Celtic Park chatter, launched the first wave and Abada did not score by a hair.
A brittle and pulseless Madrid against a Celtic at full volume.
Another bite, but Abada closed like an Ursuline a sublime assist from Jota.
Only before Courtois did he donate the ball to the Belgian.
No madridista was as clairvoyant as Kroos.
To shave the invigorating Scottish box, nothing better than anesthetizing him with the ball.
Just the motto that distinguishes Kroos.
Touch by touch and with surgical game changes from the German, Real unraveled Celtic at times.
The audit of the German and his partner Modric managed to calm down an opponent who flies in attack and huddles openly without the ball.
The midfield cabinet is a halt for him unless O'Riley intervenes, a classy footballer with lubricant in his boots.
While Modric and Kroos were tuning up, various cantes from the rest produced a new local waterspout.
The ball stung at the feet of Benzema, Vinicius, Tchouameni, with unexpected losses.
In the midst of the visitor's anxiety, McGregor burst Courtois's right post with a left-footed shot with a bad grape.
There was no positive news for a very low Real.
To make matters worse, Benzema had a bad warning about his right knee and with Real Madrid on edge he went straight to the infirmary.
Turn for Hazard, who has rhymed so little with Madrid since his arrival in 2019. Ancelotti sees him as a false striker, a possible Benzema when he moves away from the area, but without the Frenchman's trigger when it comes to scoring the goal .
It was not released with tino Hazard.
After the best visiting move of the first act, a gab with the ball between Modric and Carvajal, the Belgian finished off a fringe by goalkeeper Hart with the bunion.
Soon, the former Chelsea player earned a reprieve with an excellent pass to Vinicius, who stood up to the local goalkeeper and lost the fencer duel.
An omen of the Hazard that was coming after the break, from which Militão did not return, with physical discomfort.
But the center of the rear - this time with Rüdiger - has more spare parts than the center of the front.
The match maintained the plot of the first act when Madrid was Madrid, that Madrid that does not necessarily adopt goals as children of the game.
Routine that lasted in Glasgow.
Shortly before the hour, with Celtic still strong, a chest blow from Hazard to Valverde, a takeoff from the Uruguayan, who has turbines in his legs, and that sudden jackal that Vinicius is today.
A concise service from Valverde.
Impossible not to commemorate the triumphant toast of Paris on the 14th.
Celtic, the umpteenth team to go to the canvas without knowing why, was still pondering such an unforeseen fate when the 0-2 came.
A Tchouameni birle, a maneuver by Hazard from Chelsea or the Belgian national team and the irruption of Modric with a tailcoat.
A rival to the gutter with a dry break and the ball to a corner of the net, obedient to the most renowned right instep on the planet.
The patrimonial hitting of the Croatian deserves copyright with honors.
From 0-1, Real Madrid was another.
And Celtic Park responded well, dismissing Benzema with greatness with 0-0 and Modric with 0-3.
A 0-3 certified by Hazard, who needed it most.
The play deserved praise.
Camavinga and Mendy hid in a corner until Kroos, as if nothing had happened, noticed Carvajal's trumpet call on the opposite side.
Kroos shot from the square and bevel and Carvajal summoned Hazard with a rehabilitating goal.
It will be seen.
In Glasgow he left green shoots.
Pending the evolution of Benzema, the rebirth of Hazard is even more urgent.
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