Lewandowski's reinforced Barça only has three points more than the beaten Viktoria Plzen (12 goals against in three games).
The Sevilla that mourns Diego Carlos and Koundé while Monchi hugs and hugs the condemned Lopetegui circulates with a point, like the opening act Copenhagen.
Atlético in which World Cup strikers from France (Griezmann), Portugal (João Félix), Brazil (Cunha), Argentina (Correa) and Spain (Morata) shoot into the air is bottom with as many goals in favor as Maccabi Haifa and Dinamo from Zagreb.
It's the European Cup, Madrid's private court, who plays how he plays — a secondary issue among Real Madrid — wins like no one else.
With epic, because yes, with a shot or with 36. Without CR, Ramos, Casemiro... But with Ancelotti, the coach with the most Champions League wins along with Ferguson (102).
No one like him to mature Vinicius, Rodrygo, Valverde, Tchouameni, Camavinga... Real is one step away from the round of 16, the other Spanish clubs smell the precipice.
Every case is a world.
There are no depressing generic conclusions about Spanish football, the same one that is championed by the current European champion, the same one that the previous year had a semifinalist one thumb away from Paris (Villarreal).
Chelsea, City, United, Liverpool, PSG, Juventus, Bayern, Milan, Inter and Porto, soccer royalty, succumbed to Spanish rivals.
In football today is the day after tomorrow, so everything can turn around in the blink of an eye.
At the moment, except for Real, the rest must rectify urgently.
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In the old San Siro, Barça was bad and the referee worse.
It happens that the judge is not a matter that the team can foresee.
The game is his business and against Inter it was a fiasco.
Xavi should deliberate on this, who was always more interested in the round tables about touch and rondos than the simple readers of results and those with vulgar arbitration alibis.
It is Xavi who should ponder how it is possible that the only Barça way was Dembélé, who was abused in such a way that he had a hundred participations, threw 24 centers (each one worse) and lost 38 balls.
Why a single pass between Pedri and Gavi?
Is it worrying or just circumstantial that Lewandowski crushes Cádiz and Elche and is scared in Munich and Milan?
Nor should the Spartacus Simeone avoid a chat with Cholo in privacy.
Atlético is no longer a tooth puller and gives the feeling that it gives in without giving in completely to those —the public and the mediosphere— who beg for a little bit of football.
The less genuine Simeone in anger with the most authentic.
The result: an Atlético with a rickety blanket for feet and head.
It fits like almost never and with 20 shots in Bruges, a season record, it was zero.
In Nervión there are amendments to the whole.
Lopetegui has fallen, but Monchi, the h
ouidini
of Sevilla, is more questionable than ever after highly questionable decisions.
On the institutional level, knives fly with one of those from the League of Extraordinary Men, the same one who spent years as a boss in Pizjuán.
To top it off, Betis uncorks glasses.
Damn Europe, Real Madrid apart.
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