Real Madrid arrives late

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Drowsy from the start, time caught up with Real Madrid when the game was already winding down with an unexpected draw for the champion.

A final bugle call was not enough for Madrid against a competent Girona.

An expansive Girona at the start and who knew how to clench his jaw when his rival closed in on him in the last section.

Historic for the Catalan team;

a slowdown for a short-flight Real in Leipzig and with an unexpected slump in the League.

An unexpectedly balanced match that came into combustion after Vinicius' goal.

A hand from Asensio led the referee to VAR.

Penalty, goal by Stuani, a jackal in that luck of the game.

RMAReal Madrid

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Rüdiger, Courtois, Alaba, Camavinga (Marco Asensio, min. 61), Kroos, Ferland Mendy (Eder Militao, min. 86), Vinicius Junior, Federico Valverde (Mariano, min. 86), Rodrygo, Modric and Dani Carvajal

GIR Girona

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Yangel Herrera (Reinier Carvalho, min. 76), Santi Bueno, Arnau Martinez, David López, Gazzaniga, Valentín Castellano (Stuani, min. 76), Valery Fernández (Toni Villa, min. 76), Aleix García, Miguel Gutierrez (Javi Hernández, min. 62), Yan Couto (Rodrigo Riquelme, min. 58) and Oriol Romeu

Goals

1-0 min.

69: Vinicius Jr.

1-1 min.

79: Stuani.

Referee

Mario Melero Lopez

Yellow cards David López (min. 51), Kroos (min. 54), Gazzaniga (min. 58), Modric (min. 75) and Arnau Martinez (min. 94)

After the 1-1, Gazzaniga, visiting goalkeeper, only starting for the second time, was decisive.

The Argentine was categorical in a save against Asensio himself and another terminal intervention against Rodrygo, who snatched the ball from his hands and the goal was disallowed.

Along the way, expulsion of Kroos (the first of his career) and more than one madness in Chamartín, with people incredulous about the future of a day that seemed calm.

At the Bernabéu there was at the beginning.

Too much for a very pendular Real against a Girona not at all scared.

When Madrid wanted to press it was late, very late.

The League of the unusual Qatari World Cup begins to take effect.

In three months of the course, the players have a football belly, those on the first step and the opening act.

An incessant drip of cramps, more rotations than ever, many teams that are and are not, shaken by an exhausting schedule physically and mentally.

For those who ask for passage in Qatar, at this point, only 20 days before the event, any slight setback can be fatal.

Qatar in sight, the parties suffer.

No one is safe.

Madrid was not for more than an hour against a well-armored Girona with a disturbing flight in the first period.

It cost Real to unlock Girona.

To the point that he needed the same actors as in the opening of the 14th in Paris.

Stubborn, Valverde persevered to conquer the ball.

The charrúa had more remangue than David López and Vinicius blew his center into the net.

A relief for Madrid, demanded by Girona and limited to processing a victory.

The times do not give for much more.

With Qatar's World Cup horizon this is a sinvivir.

Girona denied Girona.

He arrived at Chamartín as penultimate, but he played as if the Champions League anthem had sounded to him.

Facing forward, prosperous to attack, bountiful to defend.

Guild in everything.

Nothing distinguished the leader, suffering in both areas and without a trace from one to the other.

Lacking someone like Benzema to give him a reel.

A Real Madrid on and off that had the game up in the air, without the right rhythm.

A match that was so close to Rodrygo, who charged against Gazzaniga's left post, and to Herrera, whose left-footed shot burst Courtois's crossbar.

Two plays as a synthesis of what the clash was.

The champion did not flow at all;

The Catalan team was not intimidated, almost a fellow in the elite with three seasons in the First Division.

Of course, there is no shortage of graduates such as David López, Oriol Romeu —the wild boar of the day—, Herrera or Stuani.

With Michel at the helm, a Girona willing to stick to stick.

At the imposing Bernabéu it was never a staunch team.

Castellanos and Valery were also around the goal in the first act.

Girona was a consortium;

Madrid was going to jerks, without more, launched by Vinicius, for the good and for the less good.

As agitator as capable of twitching all quisqui with the excessive affectation of him.

Carlo Ancelotti gave Tchouameni the day off due to some inconvenience and gave his place to Camavinga, released as a center midfielder for the hour granted by the Italian coach.

But Real lacked a bit of everything.

With more heart than head he never had the match for the bib, with more outbursts than temper and skill.

Especially when Girona forgot about the ball midway through the second half.

Madrid was furious after Asensio's penalty, one of those hands that today are as reprehensible as they are passable.

Football is becoming more and more arbitrary, a mess.

Stuani was right when Girona had already been uncovered with the changes to look for the equalizer.

Now it was his turn to hold on to the trench.

The growing figure of Gazzaniga emerged and Girona had the strength to resist.

Real arrived late, but with two games to go before Qatar they saved the lead.

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