Analgesic or poisoned cup | OneFootball

A Real Madrid in mourning seeks redemption against a Celta without Iago Aspas and with poor home records. Asencio and Brahim aim for headlines.

The rhythm of football greatly shortens mourning. So Madrid appreciates the promptness of this match against Celta after three days at half-mast to cauterize the deep wound of the Classic, a blow of reality, a reversal in rehabilitation. It will be in a double-edged Bernabéu, with the obligation to combat depression from the first minute so as not to further burden the atmosphere and against a Celta with two faces: notable high in Balaídos and suspense at home.

Numbers can be put to this Vigo bipolarity. Their results at home are Champions League results; those from outside, almost of relegation. Twenty points in their Balaídos, with only two defeats, against Atlético and Madrid, and four away for a twelfth place that places them closer to Europe than to relegation, an achievement given the difficulties of recent seasons. He arrives at the duel after a disappointment in Vallecaswith a close and unfair defeat that also left collateral damage. Alfon, the team’s second scorer and starter in the last four games, suffered a hamstring injury and it is low. Marcos Alonso, the third most used player on the squad, suffered a sprained ankle and will be a doubt until the last minute, although he made the list. Ristic and Fer López, on the other hand, are recovered.

Who Iago Aspas, injured for four weeks, will surely miss the clash and that he was already missing from Balaídos’ league match having been sent off in Las Palmas the previous week. Madrid has never been Aspas’ favorite team. In fact, he has only scored five goals in 25 games. (he has scored 11 in 22 against Barça), but he is still the team’s top scorer this season (six goals) and his loss, which has coincided with the renewal of his contract until 2026it is more than remarkable.

Aspas is the mirror of a quarry with which Claudio Giráldez has done wonderfully. Theirs has been vocational and obligatory at the same time, because only three signings arrived in the summer (Marcos, Ilaix Moriba and Borja Iglesias) and we had to look inward. His origins in the reserve team meant that it did not cost him too much. Javi Rodríguez and Hugo Álvarez have already played more than 1,000 minutes. And they, Alfon, Pablo Durán, Fer López, Carlos Domínguez and Hugo Sotelo, all from the house, have 16 points. The youngest First Division coach has the academy in his blood. He played with the blue team in the Brunete tournament and was recruited by Madrid, as a first-year player, in a Vigo Cup. So he knows both houses well.

Today he is expected to move the team without touching that three-center formation that he has maintained since he stepped foot in the first team. Starfelt and Mingueza seem immovable and the fashionable double pivot is formed Ilaix Moriba y Fran Beltran, but the rest comes and goes. It is suspected that Iván Villar, who has played in the three previous qualifying rounds, will be the goalkeeper of the Cup.

Iván Villar is one of the four survivors of the last tie that faced Madrid and Celta in the Cup and that allowed the celestial team to get into the semifinals after winning at the Bernabéu (1-2) and draw in Balaídos (2-2). The goalkeeper was a substitute in the second match, but Lucas Vázquez, Modric and Iago Aspas, the other survivors, did actively participate in the tie. Berizzo coached Celta and Zidane coached Madrid. The white team has not lost to the Vigo team since then. Fourteen wins and three draws add numbers to Celta’s black streak.

They are also advertised changes in Madridforced by the physical beating and also by the emotional situation. Lunin will return to be the starting goalkeeper, and Asencio points to the elevenwho after four good performances as a starter after his debut returned to the bench as soon as Tchouameni recovered. Since then He was only out against Deportiva Minera, But in the middle of the debate about the Frenchman’s performance, he is expected. Tchouameni could return to the midfield or lose his place to Modric or Ceballos. Another probable one is Brahim, perhaps for Rodrygo or Mbappébadly hit on an ankle by a Koundé stomp in the Classic. Who it seems Surely it is Vinicius, who will miss the next two League games due to his expulsion in Mestalla. Arda Güler also has an option if Ancelotti gives Bellingham a break.

Despite Madrid’s role as favorite, it is worth remembering that in the league match in October, in Balaídos, Celta finished morehad better chances and came close to equalizing the possession, although they ended up losing 1-2.

The match will be called by Munuera Montero, whom Celta tried to veto nine years ago by accusing him of falsifying a record. We must not forget that Giráldez has just been very critical of the referee who whistled at him in Vallecas on Friday, Cuadra Fernández. There he recalled that he is from Madrid by birth despite his affiliation to the Balearic School. Madrid doesn’t like Munuera either since that timeunsigned penalty from Rulli to Vinicius in a duel against Real and that left the leading phrase in the history of the VAR pronounced by Melero: “Everything OK.”