He Real Madrid faces a final in Bergamo. It is the month of December, far from May, which is when the titles are put on the table. But the white visit to the house Atalanta It arrives for the whites with the burden of three defeats in the five games so far in the new Champions League, the zone of the top eight too far away and the zone of being left out too close: Because with two days left, the team of Ancelotti He is the one who marks the cut of the 24 that advance.
The European champion appears on the territory of one of the most in-form teams in the competition. The one of Gasperini accumulates nine consecutive victories and 14 without losing. They have not lost since September 24: 2-3 against Como de Cesc. The Atalanta that started Serie A with two defeats in three days (Torino and Inter) is now a team full of confidence.
Bergamo arrives Madrid on a slide of sensations. One day he breaks down and doubts (Bilbao); the next, hit and take advantage of the fact that Barcelona He conveys similar sensations and has not taken advantage of Real Madrid’s mistakes. And it does it with the BMV with a past tune-up.
After the scare Girona, discounted when Ancelottiassured that the change was only as a precaution, the figure of Bellingham has grown in size in the game Madrid. He went to the November national team break just after breaking his scoring drought against Osasuna. During his days with his team he confessed that he had had a bad time, that he had felt singled out after the Euro, but that he was back. He demonstrated it with the Pross, with two high-level matches. And upon his return to Madrid, Jude has become the soul of the team. Five League games scoring, something that had never been achieved before, puts numbers to a game that has clearly grown. and with Bellingham At that level, things are much simpler for Ancelotti and his players.
From Girona he left Mbappé with another goal in his backpack. It is true that the Frenchman’s game is not brilliant, but his numbers speak of a player who is capable, even far from his comfort zone and high level, of reaching important figures. There are 11 goals, nine of them in LaLiga. At this point last season, Viniciusserious injury involved, had his tally at six goals. Leading the white scorers was Bellingham, with 16 goals. In Paris, Kylian He had 18 goals: three in the Champions League and 15 in Ligue 1. “It’s part of my job to help the team, play with personality and help the team win,” he said after the game in Girona.
The Champions League is the pending account that he has Mbappé in his career. This, his first with Madrid, is the Frenchman’s ninth to win a title, and when he came closest it was in the final of the pandemic season, which PSG lost to Bayern in Lisbon.
“Vini has recovered very well, he will be for the Champions League,” he said last Friday. Carlo AncelottYo. Madrid have been deprived of their best player of the season for four games. Two were high voltage outlets, Liverpool and San Mamésand in both of them the white team was defeated. With 12 goals to his name, Vinicius He has been Madrid’s most important player in the first third of the season. And not only because of his goals. For a match that is a final, Ancelotti brings back the most decisive player from the last Champions League. It’s no small thing.
In Bergamo, where Madrid must show that the Champions It is his competition, the one that is in his DNA, the BMV It is presented after a fine-tuning, a visit to the workshop with the aim of it being the engine of the expected reaction. The rival’s demand will be a good way to check if the mechanism works as expected.
