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In a hurry, Real Madrid reached the break in the League with relief after beating Cádiz just enough, who had the tie in sight in added time.
Espino was not right and Carlo Ancelotti's team sang the victory that allows him to focus the Qatar World Cup two points behind Barcelona.
In Chamartín there was whiplash, a lot of whiplash and a lot of skidding.
About football, almost nothing.
RMAReal Madrid
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Courtois, Alaba, Lucas Vázquez (Nacho, min. 87), Ferland Mendy, Eder Militao, Kroos, Aurelien Tchouameni, Modric (Camavinga, min. 84), Vinicius Junior, Rodrygo (Dani Ceballos, min. 82) and Federico Valverde
CAD Cadiz
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Jeremias Ledesma, Cala (José Mari, min. 72), Fali, Luis Espino, Iza, Rubén Sobrino (Negredo, min. 77), Iván Alejo (T. Bongonda, min. 56), Fede, Rubén Alcaraz (Brian Ocampo, min. 56), Álex Fernández and Lozano (Lucas Pérez, min. 71)
Goals
1-0 min.
40: Eder Militao.
2-0 min.
70: Kroos.
2-1 min.
81: Lucas Perez.
Referee
César Soto Grado
Yellow cards Eder Militao (min. 19), Fali (min. 27), Alaba (min. 36), Rubén Sobrino (min. 43) and Iván Alejo (min. 54)
Madrid has dropped football.
Suddenly, no crumbs from Real de Valverde, Vinicius, Rodrygo... Whether due to the World Cup horizon or a mere football blackout, the team has deflected the shot.
Today hours are discussed about a hand of Asensio or the arrests of Vinicius.
A dejected team that once again sealed a dissonant game, this time against a struggling Cádiz, just like in their last two visits to the whites, from which they emerged undefeated.
This time, except for Kroos for his impressive shot to certify the 2-0, on neither side did anyone have reason to show off.
Until Militão cleared the way, in Chamartín there was more tension than football.
A duel with sandpaper boots, rough and rough.
A string of assaults, Vinicius-Alejo, Lucas Vázquez-Alcaraz, Fali-Rodrygo... The match went from pique to pique, from scrub to scrub, with hardly any warnings in the areas, except for a shot by Espino from 33 meters that bounced off the crossbar and some Modric adventure on the side of Valverde and Lucas.
More courageous than precise, the Galician, Carvajal's successor, became the best local fan.
Along the Vinicius corridor everything was mines.
It is not convenient for the Brazilian to be tense, nor for Real Madrid to encourage it.
He complains by nature, rightly so many times, not always.
The sentinels know this and do not hesitate to throw the bait at him.
In turn, he does not lack a certain theatricality.
The constant interference prevented any hint of harmonic football.
Those of Sergio González, well equipped and without ever complicating life.
A Cádiz musketeer and with camaraderie, with permanent aid.
Fearless, fair.
Before any squeeze, the ball does not mess up.
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Madrid, tiring, leaden, limited to a couple of shots from La Castellana.
A Madrid that Vinicius did not stretch or Rodrygo articulated.
A Madrid emptied in the visiting area.
Due to the nature of their attackers, at Real nobody nests near someone else's goal.
In the attack you are not there, you arrive.
Not this time.
At least until Kroos twisted the ball after a clearance from Ledesma in a corner and Militão repeated Vallecas' bingo.
He headed alone and with his feet nailed to the green against a loose defense in which Fali enabled the Brazilian.
With the cadistas having a snack, Militão, powerful with the ball in flight, caused a break between so many brawls.
When the second act arrived, the clash had a greater truce.
But it was just as blurry, with mistakes and disappointments on both sides.
Losses followed one another, kindergarten passes that led to a mess of their own.
And until 2-0 the same little agitation in the goals, except for a challenge from Sobrino with Courtois before another from Valverde with Ledesma.
Madrid did not close the arrivals and Cádiz did not have Courtois in sight.
Sergio González's changes did not improve him at all.
Until the last moment, it was never an expansive set.
And another corner kick condemned him.
Modric launched it and celebrated like no one else who was supposed to have taken the corner.
Again Militão caught a header, the ball reached Vinicius, who crashed it into Iza.
On the rebound was Kroos, who without letting the ball bounce caught a shot with shrapnel, an impossible pellet for Ledesma.
The only thing that deserved a toast in a game so murky that it ended with extraordinary events.
Because it was unusual for Modric to miss the most basic goal of his life.
With the goal wide open and a foot from the net, he sent Vinicius's pass adrift in his only successful adventure of the night.
It was just as shocking that Courtois missed the ball at the feet of Lucas Pérez at 2-1.
For greater astonishment, a play preceded by an error by a footballer as clinical as Modric.
Espino had the tie when Cádiz was already closing in on Madrid.
All strange, very strange in a game as ugly in general as it is a street game from the outset.
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