'Tempus fugit', Carletto

Time is so relative that an hour on vacation passes faster than an hour at work, despite still being the same unit of time.

Xavi Hernández has one lap left to win his first league title since he came to the Barça bench.

Madrid has (only) one round to prevent that from happening.

One round, 4 months and 18 games can be enough or not enough, depending on who you ask and depending on the colors that one venerates.

The LaLiga timer stops this week for the Chamartín team.

Pause.

He takes a breather while watching Barça head towards the title of regularity.

He has to adapt to the times of the Club World Cup, which is going at a different speed.

But during that time in Morocco, healing his wounds in search of a title, Ancelotti is going to have to face the unknown (or less known):

If it is in the areas where the matches are decided, Thibaut and Karim leave a difficult gap to fill.

In Mallorca Carletto already saw what life was going to be like in the short term, and he did not come out very well.

In fact, he had already realized before without him knowing it, when the Belgian and the French covered up the real problems that the team has.

Supporting the group with saves that are worth the same as the goals, or scoring even when you are below your level, is within the reach of few.

Without them, all is hardship in the White House.

There will be others who take their place because life goes on, but the tick-tock with them on the green runs in favor of the whites and not against them.

The goal has come to Madrid before football and now it lacks the first, the one that marks them and the one that avoids them.

If we rewind in time, there are several unknown situations that Ancelotti has had to deal with since the start of this season.

One of them is, for example, the Casemiro march.

Playing without his compass has speeded up Tchouameni's adaptation time, a project more for the future than for the present and that precipitated itself as a new beacon for the team before the departure of the Brazilian.

But if the figure of the

It is because of his knowing how to be, always correct, always polite.

Someone who raises his eyebrow before his voice and someone who has always been known for being a good locker room manager.

He has had to drive a few.

Now, however, he is watching his roost flutter.

Ergo, the unknown.

A few weeks ago Rodrygo complained about always being the Italian's first change and made no attempt to hide it in front of him.

He and his cobra were so explicit and cheeky when greeting the coach, that Carletto had to intervene and act as a father to remind him that once, yes, but twice, he was not going to do it to him.

On this past day, Fede Valverde was angry, complaining for the same reason (I was always the first).

Something that the Uruguayan has already pointed out as 'pending task for improvement'.

And to all this, the 'Vinicius theme' is added,

with the Brazilian.

Also, he combines the role of good cop and bad cop.

From the stick of maturity, to the carrot of protection.

The image of Ancelotti escorting Vini when the match in Mallorca ended, was the clear example of when your father/mother told you that “go home and don't get into trouble”.

The tight schedule, the age of the players, the accumulation of minutes in a short squad... In short, the passage of time is weighing on Real Madrid.

And the World Cup hangover has staged the real problems it has.

Surviving without Thibaut and Karim is Carlo's goal in Morocco.

On his return, LaLiga's clock runs against him.

In the Champions League he has already shown that he knows how to control the clock.

Carletto.

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