After a resounding fall in the Cup in extra time against Alcoyano and starring in critical acclaim, Real Madrid licked their wounds yesterday with a comfortable thrashing against a weak Alava (1-4). The Basque team, which takes care of the celebrations in detail the season of its centenary, still does not react to the grass and at halftime already lost by three goals against a white team eager to vindicate themselves as a result of the ridicule of Alcoy. In spite of dismissing Pablo Machín and taking, again, the Pitu Abelardo, the Alava one is not able to find the course and was clearly surpassed by a much superior Real Madrid. Casemiro, Benzema and Hazard scored the goals, while the baton of the game was in charge of a Modric who, at 35, still leaves good football displays.
The first whip of the white set arrived very early, in minute 15, when Casemiro finished off to a bottom of the network a service of corner. The goal neutralized the premises, that had carried out two timid attempts of Joselu and Aguirregabiria. Madrid took control of the game and, at the end of the first half, a great move without a ball from Hazard confused the defense of Alava and Benzema from the front sent a great shot to goal . Five minutes later, it was Hazard himself who scored the third goal after a classy definition.
Triple change from Alabès at the break
After going through the locker room, Abelardo did not shake his wrist to shake the bench and gave way to three players at once: Lucas Perez, Manu Garcia and Borja Sainz. And the formula encouraged his team, which in a set piece Pérez assisted Joselu to shorten distances. But the local reaction came to nothing: Modric found Benzema, who from the top of the area sent a cross shot placed to make the quarter. Zinedine Zidane, absent due to coronavirus isolation, gains air.e
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