MADRID. This is how it looks when siblings quarrel.
Real Madrid dressed in white, pointed with finger and asked the little brother how it feels to lose in the final seconds.
The answer was delayed, so they might as well be sure to remind them.
If, as Atlético Madrid, a club anthem, which establishes that football is emotion, it is the feelings you get.
Will the Santiago Bernabéu get resign themselves to hear the brother sing another song , that they stole from Argentina:
– Atleti, tell me how it feels to have lost it. We swear, even years go by so we never forget … In the 93rd minute, we made goals, it was made by Ramos. Your dream died, you finished second as always.
Last year, played Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid finals of the Champions League, now they stood breast to breast again, and it was with a feeling that vibrated from the plan up stands:
The Horror. Fear. Nervousness.
Carletto Ancelotti had to train job at Real Madrid because he is everything that is not Jose Mourinho is: elegant, confident, gentlemanly, friendly – but here he stood before a final match at home and borrowed Mourinho’s tactics blocks.
Extra weight
In with Sergio Ramos defensive midfielder in front of the beauty Varane and the Beast Pepe, to give the other midfielders chance to play offensively without restraint and to gain extra weight against Atletis air defense on set pieces.
The white roared in wave after wave, painted the stands with requests to leave the very soul on the field.
And there were souls who trembled.
The Real Madrid may be the biggest in town, but after seven derbies without profit they dared not trust the story. Instead, we got a match that was about it there as Al Pacino thunders in Any Given Sunday, in one of the sport’s most played down monologues: Inch by inch, play by play. Inch by inch, fit for fit.
On the surface, it was perhaps boring or static, but beneath the bubbling of struggle and cramping. Fantastic football, a duel on every inch, every pass. It was not a match that was bleeding and boiled as a week ago, but a tug of war between white and red, between two different urkrafter.
Atleti were Atleti, gathered in 4-4-2, when they lost the ball could Griezmann take a 80-meter dash home to provide defensive support. Real Madrid had the ball, but was too respectful and aware of risks for daring to break the lines with offensive central defenders or brave passes.
Frayed at the starting line-
Put simply:
part was it so clear that they knew exactly what they encountered.
For some, it was also because they did not know exactly who they were themselves.
Ancelotti has worn hard on his starting eleven this season, without rotating his bench, and now he stood here with no other choice but to look at the team’s most
He had not Benzema invaluable reference current. He lacked Marcelo width commute, Bales speed and – above all – Luka Modrics phenomenal imagination.
On Tuesday conjured Pep Guardiola with his bench players because they are recorded in eleven, at the Bernabéu sent Ancelotti into Chicharito, who barely started a great match under his leadership.
It was as much a test for Ancelotti as for Chicharito.
The Little Mexican did it nicely, for Ancelotti became tougher. Real Madrid knobs, Real Madrid returned, but without Modric dynamics and Benzema-momentum they had difficulty breaking down a single Atleti. The chances that came depended on cheap mistake (Saúl Ñiguez scored twice, and was replaced in pause) and were rarely very clear.
The few who were stuck on a goalie sixth named Jan Oblak.
Atleti had almost no aggressive ambitions, especially since they replaced the points king Griezmann early. But the uniqueness of Diego Simeone is that he embodies it there as just empty buzzwords for all the world’s second football coach: ethic, attitude, work. The players of Atleti do not hear those words, they live them.
Ville the very
It was enough as long as the playing field was level.
When Atleti lost, it was not because they wanted too little, or too that Real Madrid could be too much.
They lost because they wanted too much.
Arda Turan dumstämplade Sergio Ramos received his second bookable offense, and with ten men against eleven became the tug of war uneven.
Carlo Ancelotti has been criticized for having relied too much on their stars and too little on their reserves, but if someone wonder if he made the right or wrong so they can continue with it.
With two minutes left took the greatest star (Cristiano Ronaldo) ball and worked forward it to one of the reserves (Chicharito), and so we got target confirming that the world today is that the world was yesterday.
Real Madrid is a big club, Atlético Madrid is a little brother.
Chicharito and Sergio Ramos stood last of all in my circle to receive ovations from a boiling the Santiago Bernabéu who sang as they usually: “So, so, so win Real Madrid”. When the rest of the Real Madrid players came out to applaud and applauded as they did to the song from a few thousand Atleti fans who stood and sang the club anthem for the player who was no longer there to hear.
Such is also counted:
Football is emotion. And this loses Atlético Madrid.
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