Madrid scares and scares

Arithmetic accompanies Madrid insistently and football, intermittently. Tacita by tacita has already put Barça ten points apart and forces Atlético to score points today in Valencia so as not to lose track of them. Soccer is something else. He left a remarkable hour, attributable to the usual ones (Vinicius and Benzema) plus Asensio, who comes and goes. Then he lowered his tension and put himself in danger before an intrepid but short shot.

Also this time Hazard did not parade out on the catwalk of 7, an alley without an owner in this Madrid. The thing is between the open case and the lost case. Ancelotti can’t find the time to put him on. Against Rayo, a team with an improper value for a recently promoted, he must have thought that the rhythm of the game would exceed his limits. Or that, with the stands on yellow alert for whistles, it was not convenient to expose him to a greater punishment. Or that on the right one gets lost and on the left there is no one who coughs at Vinicius. The facts came to prove him right. Asensio has a dangerous tendency to space out his art, but this time the inspiration caught him at work. He prepared, with a precise pass, Kroos 1-0. The assistant raised the flag for a false offside prior to Vinicius and the VAR corrected him. Monitor screens don’t always offer film noir. The play showed that Asensio had changed the pace of Madrid. Exceptionally, his band, protected by the emerging Fran García, sounded even better than Vinicius’s.

Benzema does not stop

Before the goal, Rayo had been Rayo, which has its merit, especially because was seen without Falcao’s silver bullet (with discomfort in the hamstrings he came out in the second half): he pressed high, had a chance at 30 seconds, deployed against him, made it clear that he would not die in his area and played Madrid in the open field. It is a formula, and not a silly thing, that has already given him 20 points, half of what you need to save yourself. The Shakhtar, in addition, had left him some good clue. This League has greatly extended the middle class. He approaches Madrid and Rayo is not far behind.

However, Kroos’ goal fell on him when the white team had already taken note of the yellow card that his audience took on Wednesday. As the minutes passed, the strip was erased from Rayo, with a very spirited Asensio on the outside and a Vinicius who has also expanded his repertoire with a good inside game. Each match offers more records. The second goal, before the break, sent Rayo to the scaffold. Alaba asked the body for an exit from the left wing (there are customs that are not forgotten) and put a cross shipment of those who kill by optical effect: they fall far behind the center-back and very far from the exit to the goalkeeper’s crossing . Benzema slipped through that hole to add and follow.

On the brink of a tie

The best of Madrid came to space, because the team has more speed than patience. Hermetic sets such as Villarreal and Osasuna left him at zero. So an open lightning bolt suited him perfectly, especially for Vinicius, president of the celebrations committee, who brushed past the goal of the year, knocking out Saveljich, Catena and Fran García twice as he stepped on the accelerator. His auction was saved by Oscar Valentin with Dimitrievski defeated. The result and the spirit of Iraola’s team offered him a recreational match at the attack front of Madrid. Benzema was able to sign it 3-0 after Vinicius’s heel and Mendy’s footfall. In a way this was about winning the match and compensating the crowd on the European night until the supply was cut off.

Falcao entered when Madrid had lost their enthusiasm and the Lightning had not lost hope. Baby was able to interrupt the white nap with a shot to the stick. Falcao did it with a head butt to the net, tiger’s claw, before breaking. He was on the field for twelve minutes, the same as Hazard, who with such short sips cannot be seen. Rayo had the last two opportunities, very clear, against a Madrid that let go dangerously, although the table and its provisional leadership say otherwise.