The best Mbappé fires Navas

Jesús Navas left and the team lost, one bad news after another for Sevilla. Madrid won, he moved on to Barça, he is hot on the heels of Atlético, the new front that is definitely open, and he confirmed that Mbappé is the player he has pursued for five years. He scored, he assisted, he smiled, he had fun. He recognized himself in the mirror, in short, in his team's most complete game of the season. The emotion, which was never in the result, was concentrated in the farewell of Navas, one of those players who may never be repeated. The Bernabéu applauded him almost with the same intensity with which he fired Kroos, another of the ideal eleven of eternity, and he left happily on his way to 2025, because the winter that left the Classic has made way for an unexpected spring.

Minute 10. Ceballos opens up for Rodrygo, who feints with a deep pass into space, but ends up sending it to the center, where Mbappé is waiting for him, almost 22 meters from the goal. Sevilla floats at him, as if the Frenchman were one of many, and he, encouraged by the public, who sees the gap at the same time as him, rams a missile that reached 108 km/hour into Álvaro Fernández's door. Mbappé is starting to be who he says he is.

And since the afternoon was about killing flies, this Seville seemed like that in miniature, with cannon shots, Valverde, the League's artillery corps, immediately raised his hand. Even from further away, even with more power, he scored the second goal. In his case it is not possible to even claim ignorance of the law of the strongest.

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Unlike other afternoons, in which Madrid scores before asking, this time His goals were a consequence of the game that the Bernabéu values ​​so much, a constant attack, an enormous ambition, an incessant production of chances: a high shot by Mbappé, a goal avoided by Salas against Lucas Vázquez, recovery in the Sevilla area and a too-crossed shot by Rodrygo. In short, the champion team that has been seen so little this season.

Camavinga, lateral

Ancelotti had put an eleven similar to that of Qatar, with Brahim for Vinicius and with Ceballos for Fran García, what sent the left back to Camavinga for the twenty-fourth time since he arrived in Madrid. The measure seemed reserved for causes of force majeure, but this time The two regulars in the square were safe and sound. There is no cat in the bag, it is simply that both seem incomplete to the technician: Fran García, too progressive, and Mendy, qualified until now, too conservative. That explains the assault on Davies. Mbappé remained at nine and Rodrygo was graced with the left wing, a field for which there are plenty of candidates. They all did well in their roles.

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García Pimienta, on the other side, recovered his best youth players after a match in the dungeon for waving an anti-Betis flag that the Competition considered a pirate flag and opted for a very vigorous midfield, a barrier of muscle against Madrid, but the barrier was made of paper. He neither built nor destroyed. The white creation line passed through her with extreme ease. The sides also had free rein, especially Lucas Vázquez, who without much to watch, decided to take the afternoon to the extreme. In one of his countless climbs he gave Rodrygo the third goal. The Brazilian has definitely tuned in to the season.

Madrid was so involved in the party that they forgot about Sevilla and also scored a goal against them. It was in a Juanlu center, possibly copied from the hundreds that Navas gave in his 21-year career, that Isaac Romero finished off with no one within five meters around. Juanlu came to be seen by an alleged suitor and it turned out well. After half-time, Isaac Romero lost the lead at 3-2 and the Bernabéu whistled timidly. This is the white public, zero tolerance for voltage drops, even temporary ones, even on the best of days. That demand has filled the white museum.

A very emotional farewell

The fourth goal extinguished the noise and brought out Mbappé's best smile. in months, because he got a goldsmith's assist that Brahim improved with his control and his finishing.

It was before Navas will reach the last game of his life. Madrid had prepared a previous tribute of justified emotionality. Hugs, delivery of a shirt signed by the white team and a parade down a hallway that summed up the reverence of all of Spanish football. His entry onto the field, with 25 minutes remaining, was responded to by an ovation worthy of the Pizjuán. They were the last moments of the best player in the history of Sevilla, a false two, because for his band he was infinite, a true leader, hidden in a discreet and elegant character. He cried again. At this time Sevillismo must continue doing so.

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Your first action It was a heel to Isaac Romerowho sent his shot to the post. A kind of transfer of gear from the best youth squad ever to the best youth squad now, because The Sevilla striker was well above the average of his team. Ancelotti then gave Raúl Asencio a quarter of an hour to remind him and the academy that there is still hope, and Lukebakio corrected the result when he had no longer left, only eyes for Navas, who knew Sevilla better than the one who fired him.

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