Real Madrid returned to the firmness of the leader launched to the title, with improved sensations from the dominance in the first act and the goal in the second, to make Celta feel closer to the abyss (4-0).
Real Madrid regained strength on its firm path to LaLiga, burying its moment of irregularity without defeat – three draws in the last five games – and with a sense of recovered freshness. He demanded touch-ups from Ancelotti. Rotations to bury, through physical freshness, the climate of insecurity that was felt in the Champions League, when they managed the advantage against Leipzig in the worst possible way.
Celta, on the day of Rafa Benítez’s return to the Bernabéu, lacked faith to believe the leader’s weakness. Protected in the defensive phase in a defense of five that, on this occasion, did not choke a Real Madrid without ‘9’. With the mobility of Vinícius, Brahim and Rodrygo up top to avoid setting marks and with a special guest, Camavinga.
He has a way of understanding the midfield position, far from the classic defensive stereotypes, that dazzles the Bernabéu. His physique allows him to provide textbook coverage as well as to get loose in attack with arrival. His quality for the clean start of the play as well as for unbalancing in the last meters. He left up to three left-footed shots and two headers in a first act of the match dominated by Luka Modric. Like the orchestra maestro who makes instruments play to his liking. Every center, every corner kick from the Croatian, was taken advantage of by his co-stars.
An intense Real Madrid, who played the ball with good rhythm and pressed high, made any plan that Benítez had designed on his board difficult. Celta lacked the ball and struggled until they conceded a goal that was a matter of time. Camavinga’s continuous attempts were joined by a shot into the side of the net by Lucas Vázquez before the decisive appearance of Vinícius.
Where the matadors relate to the goal, Vinícius appeared. On a roll. Author of four goals in his last three games. The corner with Modric’s music was headed by Rüdiger with everything. Guaita excelled below with reflexes and above with a miraculous hand on ‘Vini’s first attempt. The second rejection was already impossible to save. At the opposite pole, Rodrygo has settled again. Five games without scoring. He forgave the opportunity he had in the first act to establish tranquility in the Bernabéu.
There was no Madrid nervousness due to Celta’s lack of fang. Manu Sánchez shot cross on an approach, Bamba went up in the second. And Aspas, in an action with a bad clearance by an unknown Nacho, was the first to test Lunin. The goalkeeper sighed deeply in the last action of the first half when Luca de la Torre, alone, at the far post, headed high to score.
Real Madrid felt so superior that in the second half they did not maintain the same intensity. He fueled Celta’s hope of getting something positive from the Bernabéu, protagonist of a terrible streak of eleven defeats, with the one this Sunday, and a draw in their last twelve visits to the Madrid team. But alive until the final stretch, as Benítez was looking for, when he took the lead it was difficult for him to get beaten.
Real Madrid’s football faded as Modric’s strength ran out. Celta’s moments, with Mingueza filtering a great pass to Larsen from his new position in the center of the field, did not find the desired final step. When he was able to have more possession, he lacked clarity in the last few meters to make the Bernabéu stands, who had whistled at his team in the ‘Champions’, feel nervous.
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