Full house and rout at Cartagonova. The gap between Madrid and Deportiva Minera practically nullified the possibility of a surprise, even more so given that it was not played on the artificial grass field of the Llano del Beal field, but rather at Cartagonova, well recovered after hosting Cartagena-Leganés the day before. Madrid passes, but leaves a box office (80 euros for the cheapest, 150 for the most expensive) that covers two annual budgets of Deportiva and a good show thanks to a team complete with castillistas and even a youth team, but in which there was no shortage of megastars. Modric played an hour, Mbappé and Vinicius, half each.
Madrid respected their rival in the pure sense of the expression: playing with all the enthusiasm of any official match. We even saw him with more desire to recover the ball in the opposite field than other times, something typical of the presence of Brahim, Güler, Endrick and Fran García, who are fighting for a place in the starting team. The first two goals came early, but the score did not exceed five, a figure that is not abrasive for the victory. They were no more, not because Madrid gave up trying, but because Fran Martínez made up to 17 stops, several of them in extreme situations. He left the game accredited.
They liked the full-back Lorenzo and the center-back Aguado, this one with a great left leg. Chema, a center half, only had half an hour of play and he was correct. Vinicius entered the last half hour with a confused air, strange for him. By the way, the negligence of the Committee, which could have met electronically yesterday if it took football as seriously as everyone else, left a question in the air: What if they decide to sanction him for a serious infraction, which would extend the suspension beyond LaLiga? I don't think so, given the cakey wording of the Soto Grado minutes, but cases like that cannot happen.
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