Hitting, and of the fat ones, in Almeria. And, furthermore, in a game that was key to beginning to ensure the League. Defeat, beyond the doubts it may cause in the team, gives life to the Madrid and that is always bad business. At the time of analysis, this time there are no excuses or hot cloths to apply.
The players are to blame, due to the lack of intensity with which they performed, and Xavi for his technical and tactical decisions. It’s not for nothing, but it was noticed from minute one that there was a team that was running and another that was looking at it. Without intensity, gentlemen, no one is won. Nobody! Let them put it in their heads. And without the best on the field, everything is more difficult, Mr. Coach. Without Koundé neither AraujoThe defense has no speed and this is a beginner’s mistake, because everyone knows that the best thing Almería has is the speed of its forwards. I know that on Thursday you have to go to the Madrid field to play nothing more and nothing less than a Cup semifinal, but the image that was given and the impotence that existed on the field is intolerable against a team that was in decline and that he had just conceded six goals in Girona.
CAREFUL! The first part was horrible and the second only a little better. The team did not have a single clear goal chance. Xavi came out with four midfielders and at half-time he rectified by taking out Raphinha for Kessié, but it wasn’t enough. The team did not find a way to connect with Lewandowski, who, by the way, is at his worst moment of the season, and desperately ended up with two youngsters like Pablo Torre and Alarcón and with Araujo as the second striker looking to catch a center on the cooking pot. Fortunately, there are seven points ahead in the League, but we must urgently rectify the dark spots that appear. Without Dembélé there is no imbalance and without Pedri there is no football. Xavi has not solved it and he has only four days to find the key because on Thursday, at the Bernabéu, such a disaster cannot be repeated. And, be careful!, that in the League there will be more games like yesterday’s, against teams that play relegation and put their foot and soul into each play.