Madrid dodges the mess against a great Valladolid

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The "trap match" must have been invented for a Madrid appointment on December 30 in the cold Valladolid after an unprecedented World Cup in Qatar.

The whites came out of the mess with a VAR play in the 80th minute.

An outstretched arm from Javi Sánchez inside the area and a ball that hits the center-back's left hand after a header from Rüdiger.

What would the referee and the video arbitration room say this time?

Maximum penalty for a great Valladolid who at that point had climbed on the beards of Ancelotti's boys, who presented promise and were getting lost in the plan of the intrepid Pacheta.

At the time of the VAR, the duel had become a runner.

The pucelanos really threatened under the orders of Aguado, a small medium with small pants who has the rare habit in the 21st century of tucking his shirt inside (just like Roque Mesa), while a blunt Madrid did not hit the sudoku .

He was freed first by another great Courtois and in the end by a misplaced arm from Javi Sánchez.

Benzema, back after two months, deceived Masip and with the locals exhausted —Sergio León was sent off for protesting the penalty— he applied the executioner after a run by Camavinga.

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Initially, Ancelotti shot with the best he had in his catalog (Militão, out due to illness), including Vinicius, who barely had four training sessions with the group.

The white forward was more bald and the Italian did not mess around with inventions or

, no matter how much he assured in the previous one that he saw the Belgian better.

With the former Chelsea player, the coach's words have been on one side for a long time and decisions on the other.

Nor was he a resource in trouble.

Madrid went to Doha with a lazy and often late and inconsistent air.

Either he was late or he left early.

As if he wanted to dispatch the games more than play them.

A month and a half later, in Zorrilla, before everything went wrong again, he applied himself, with Benzema and Vinicius directing the maneuvers, in his white profile.

The same players change depending on which shirt they wear.

This time, he was the leading Frenchman and not the outsider from

and the Brazilian, more gesticulating than with the Canarinha, although just as sharp.

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Valladolid ceded the ball and Ancelotti's boys deployed with agility at dawn.

Karim, Asensio, Valverde triangulated very well for the shot with a crumb from the Balearic Islands, which Masip rejected.

And in the continuation, the ball hit the hand of Javi Sánchez.

This time, the opinion at the foot of the field and in the VAR room denied the penalty.

It was necessary for Munuera Montero to go to the band to explain it to Ancelotti.

It was the best section of Madrid in the first part.

And, without reaching 20 minutes, Benzema sent it to the stands when everyone in Pucela feared the goal.

The poison of Valladolid had not yet appeared, that of the 10 minutes before the break.

Aguado, a player who this Friday told the world 'I am here', woke up Courtois, who until then had been in peace.

He first threatened him with a great shot from the edge that demanded a hand of merit and instantly he tested it with another curling shot that just missed.

The strong Madrid felt for the first time harassed.

Several more would come.

Pucelano's attempts inaugurated a more open match, with the locals loose and the visitors who began to accumulate minutes without producing.

Ancelotti dispensed with the eager Asensio for Rodrygo, a crisis solver, and replaced an erratic Carvajal for Lucas Vázquez's plumbing.

On the banks of the Pisuerga, Pacheta had to remove Escudero and Roque Mesa due to injury.

The game had already broken down and there was Aguado to harass Courtois again with the Olympic goal attempt.

And, instantly, a tremendous header from Sergio León demanded a lot from the Belgian below, where he pupates a lot.

Pure frenzy to which Vinicius responded by overwhelming Fresneda and Joaquín to send her up.

The landscape was clear and Carletto accepted it.

If there were runners, what better element than Camavinga, a substitute for the inconsequential Ceballos.

The rope tightened the white team until an arm from Javi Sánchez, and the subsequent visit to the referee's monitor, helped Madrid, who escaped from a mess in Valladolid.

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