Madrid won without needing the best version of Benzema. He won with a goal from a central midfielder (Casemiro) camouflaged as a pure center forward, signing a sensational assistance, as if it were modric, by Vinicius. He won Madrid with another strange action since Lucas Vazquezthe right back, credited his delicacy with his left leg to get the goal that gave peace of mind.
So comfortable was the match for the leader that Ancelottiin a strange gesture, decided that Bale, after two long years of absence, step on the lawn of the Bernabéu replacing Benzema. The response from the Madrid public was as loud as it was resounding: whistles for the Welshman. Many whistles. And every time he touched the ball, even more whistles.
smiled bale, Nevertheless. He barely intervened in the game, leaving a shot from outside the area, comfortably caught by David Soriawith Getafe waking up in added time, already late and badly, in that shot from An I, the Turkish striker, who licked Courtois’s right post. The Welshman, after that shot, was showered with timid applause from the Bernabéu.
Casemiro brand! Great pass from Vinicius.
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The match was so easy that Ancelotti made Bale play at the Bernabéu two years later. And the white public whistled the Welshman
Not four minutes of the game and Benzema he had already scored a goal. But he was ruled out because the French striker was in an illegal position. He was clearly offside, but he made a very quick declaration of intent. Madrid was in a hurry to settle the match so as not to take any risks in the face of Tuesday’s European duel, receiving Chelsea with the comfortable cushion of 1-3 in the first leg at Stamford Bridge.
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Ancelotti’s rotations
gave rest Ancelotti to three basic pieces of its structure together with the obligatory change of Marcelo for Mendysuffering from muscular discomfort. Carvajal he left his place on the right flank of the defense to Lucas Vázquez and modified the entire skin of the midfield because he granted the substitute tracksuit to Kroos Y Modric, opening the door of ownership, again to Valverdeand betting on Camavinga as escorts of the untouchable Casemiro.
The vigor of Valverde
After the first 10 minutes, there was no trace of a shy Getafe, unable as it was to cross the center of the Bernabéu field. And Madrid, meanwhile, played placidly governing the game with dangerous insinuations of Lucas Vazquezdaring as it turned out with a rogue shot with the left leg completed already the initial quarter of an hour.
Besides, Valverde he energetically stepped on the Getafe area taking advantage of his physical strength that allowed him to arrive before anyone else. He ran into, yes, with the hands of David Soria. Viniciusmeanwhile, rescued the lost magic with a couple of dazzling dribbles, pipe included to Djené.
Vinicius’ pass with the outside
And the party, which was getting thick, ugly and sad, found on the outside of the right boot of Vinicius a flash of light to illuminate the Bernabéu. The center was simply superb, finding the prize for the header from Casemiro, a central midfielder disguised as nine to overtake Madrid at the most complex moment of the night. Vini’s assistance seemed to bear the signature of modricwho must have enjoyed that cloned pass from the bench.
Casemiro, low at the Sánchez Pizjuán
With the match already ahead for Ancelotti’s team, Casemiro he freaked out with a misplaced protest to the referee as the match was heading towards the end of the first half. A disproportionate and incomprehensible protest by the Brazilian that cost him to see the yellow card and will prevent him from being next Sunday at the Sánchez Pizjuán against Sevilla (9:00 p.m.).
Getafe didn’t even shoot at the white goal. It was not known if Madrid played with a goalkeeper since nobody bothered Courtois. He didn’t need it in those first 45 minutes, summed up in Casemiro’s head. Good head to score the 1-0 and bad head to see a yellow card that complicates Ancelotti’s league plans because he loses his pillar in midfield in the visit to the always difficult home of Sevilla.
Madrid took advantage of the candid and inoffensive image of Getafe to win with solvency without needing the best version of Benzema
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He saw it so bad Quique Sanchez Flores which introduced two changes to the break (sandro for Borja Mayoral Y Oscar Rodriguez for Aleñá) to shake up his team, which had shown no signs of life at the Bernabéu, while Ancelotti He couldn’t stop chewing gum. That intervention by the Getafe coach did not alter the sad role of his team at all.
appeared then Lucas Vazquez to find the reward you sought in the first half. A play down the right wing by Rodrygo allowed the right-back to show that he also has a valuable left leg, scoring the goal of tranquility, leaving the night in an endless debate about bale, frowned upon by the white fans, while Kroos and Modric did not take off their tracksuits. Free night they both had.
The record of Madrid-Getafe (2-0)
Madrid: Courtois (5), Lucas Vázquez (7), Militao (6), Alaba (5), Marcelo (6), Valverde (6), Casemiro (7), Camavinga (5), Rodrygo (6), Benzema (6) and Vinicius (7).
Coach: Carlo Ancelotti (6)
Substitutions: Bale (4) for Benzema (m. 74); Ceballos (5) by Casemiro (m. 74); Marco Asensio (sc) by Vinicius (d. 83); Nacho (sc) by Alaba (d. 86)
Getafe: Soria (5), Djené (4), Mitrovic (4), Cuenca (4), Damián (4), Olivera (5), Aleñá (4), Maksimovic (5), Villar (5), Ünal (4) and Borja Mayoral (4).
Coach: Quique Sánchez Flores (4)
Substitutions: Sandro (4) for Borja Mayoral (m. 46); Óscar Rodríguez (4) for Aleñá (m. 46); Florentino (4) by Villar (m. 74); Cabaco (sc) by Cuenca (m. 82): Yokuslu (sc) by Maksimovic (m. 86)
Referee: Soto Grado (5), from La Rioja.
Yellow cards: Casemiro (m. 44), Valverde (m. 45); Olivera (d. 76); Djené (d. 79)
Goals: 1-0, Casemiro (d. 38); 2-0, Lucas Vazquez (m. 68)
Santiago Bernabeu Stadium.