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There are days when it is better not to get out of bed and yesterday was one of them in Varane’s sports career. The Frenchman was destined to lead the rear of Real Madrid on such a special night before the loss of Sergio Ramos, sanctioned for the expulsion of the first leg. The Frenchman had the obligation to become great and to make the game easier for Militao, the substitute for the captain and a center-back still somewhat green for which a whole Real Madrid demands. Unexpectedly, the spotlights pointed to Varane, key with two errors in the elimination of Zidane’s.
Madrid played their worst minutes and made the most inopportune decisions last night at the Etihad when they wanted to be more Guardiola than him Guardiola himself. His insistence on getting the ball played from his own area under the insistent pressure of City was to play Russian roulette over and over again, and fuel a distrust that ended up paying dearly. The English team did not even need a harassing mark to make Varane and Militao nervous. Neither to Casemiro, Kroos or Modric, all of them far from the level shown in the eleven League games after the pandemic. With little, with very little, the exit of the ball from Madrid before the insistent pressure of City in the rival area generated the best chances for the English. Paradoxical that a Guardiola team caused danger from an innocent rival mistake and not from their own game. If the Champions League are details, last night Madrid did not take care of any in defense and this is impossible in Europe.
Varane has nine seasons in the Real Madrid and the ten million euros that the white team invested in his hiring, thanks to Zidane’s clinical eye, have come out very cheap, but performances like yesterday’s give reason to those who think that without Ramos he is just another central defender. Madrid fell in the Etihad and did so with two goals against prebenjamin. The first, giving the ball in his own area to Gabriel Jesús when not even the Brazilian pressure tickled. The second, giving a ball to Courtois with his head that was left halfway and that Gabriel Jesús only had to hit the net with Thibaut sold. It was known beforehand that Ramos’s loss weighed as much or more than the 1-2 in the first leg, but what Real Madrid never imagined is that the captain would have to scream and whistle more than ever from his position in the stands to lift the spirit of a nefarious Varane.
Rodrygo, notable
The continental ko of Real Madrid Little good news can leave the current league champion, but, thinking about the future, some positive reading can be obtained. Again huge Courtois, with decisive stops that kept his team in the game until Varane’s second blunder. Rodrygo is also notable, the big surprise in Zidane’s eleven. The Brazilian has experienced a roller coaster of emotions in his first white season, in which he has even played for Castilla. Last night, he assisted in Benzema’s goal and caused the greatest danger for Madrid in the few balls he received. The elimination cannot cover that the white club has there, a thick line player for years.
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