Celta-Real Madrid Madrid lives from a penalty

From penalty to penalty, a middling Madrid kept the type and the advantage and saved anxiolytics before the visit to Chelsea. Three maximum sentences indicated González Fuertes in his favor, the last one for the debate, plus a well annulled goal against Celta. Enough for Balaídos to find a good reason to justify an unfair defeat. The team from Vigo was well above a leader even under the effects of the Clasico blower, low batteries and even heart. The League begins to make him very long.

If there is a constant in the history of Madrid, and there is the Bernabéu trophy room to testify in its favor, it is his facility for not becoming engrossed in defeatnot even if it comes in a Clásico, not even when it comes accompanied by the roar of a 0-4. That ability to shorten mourning (That black uniform that he premiered against Barça at a bad time will take time to return), highly cultivated in the club, has very often differentiated him from the rest. In Vigo that spirit did not save him, but a concatenation of favorable circumstances that will hardly be repeated.

Ancelotti, from the sofa, ordered the relief of Carvajal, called by the National Team at its worst moment. And Coudet did not dare with Araújo, recently landed from the CONCACAF pre-world championship, nor with Cervi, who was coming out of plantar fasciitis, in a week on the bench: in which Santi Mina sat from a court in Almería, accused of sexual assault, and with which President Mouriño threatened Denis Suárez if he does not change his agent. The first was left out of the eleven, the second entered to complete that string quintet so common in the Argentinian’s Celta: Brais-Suárez-Nolito-Aspas-Galhardo.

Nolito puts his foot…

That is the team from Vigo, despite what the table says: a lot of front and little rear. In short, a promise of activity in both areas, more of an exit in Madrid, who was caught in that first pressure from Celta, one of his marks in this League. He gave it to an intercepted shot from Aspas and another from Denis Suárez. Madrid, with less production, was closer to the goal. Benzema sent a header to the side of the net and Dituro rejected a shot without placement by Vinicius. It all happened before Nolito gave Militao a clear and clearly avoidable penalty. A striker stuck in his own area is almost always a busybody. Thus, Benzema put Madrid ahead without the team having had time to apologize to themselves for the sins of the Clásico.

An advantage that sustained the other great asset of the leader: Courtois. Aspas, who in Vigo is Benzema to the bucket, sent a free kick next to the right squad to which the Belgian applied a stretch and a slap, which one better When Madrid take accounts in June, the debt with its goalkeeper will tend to infinity.

The goal, in any case, reduced Celta’s dominance and Madrid’s confinement. The thing was in a back and forth, with more activity than occasions. Aspas appeared little, Galhardo was lost, Vinicius was closely watched, Asensio offered his unstable version… Everything under the control of a Madrid with an eye on the fuel needle and head at Stamford Bridge until one of those incidents that the regulations contemplate and the public misunderstands. Nolito sent a cross into the area, Galhardo headed it to one post and the ball traveled the line until it entered the other. Aspas, who was offside and has a lot of military service, was careful not to touch the ball, but with his maneuver he prevented Alaba from clearing. González Fuertes, to VAR, and the goal, to limbo.

The invented penalty

Madrid came back from the rest accommodated and neglected a lot Javi Galan’s band, the third player who focuses the most in the championship. That’s where the tie came to him, in a rush from the side, whose low center ended in a Nolito ultra unmarked to beat Courtois. Madrid dragged their feet, in the mistaken idea that this was a one-goal game, they lost all the second plays, they did not threaten on the counterattacks. The shock turned light blue. Thiago Galhardo missed the goal on a volley; Aspas had him close in a lateral foul whose shot left no one…

Davide Ancelotti sent a discharge from the bench with Carvajal and Rodrygo to finish off Javi Galán’s garden. The first thing the Brazilian tried went great: he broke Murillo in the area and he sent him to the ground. Dituro saved the penalty from Benzema, but five minutes later the scene was repeated, now for Kevin’s close takedown of Mendy. This time he did not spare the French. Nothing had improved in Madrid except the result while Balaídos roared about the accumulation of refereeing decisions by which he felt offended. “Penalty, penalty!” He shouted at any regulatory incident, whatever the area of ​​the field.

From there to the end, Celta left their soul for the draw and Madrid defended its advantage frightened and unrecognizable. Only the result deserved celebration, which distances him from an end with photo finish.