For the second time this season, the walls of the Real Madrid locker room shook. After a very complicated 45 minutes, the White House trailed by one goal at Mestalla this Friday. The achievement of Hugo Duro came to punish the amorphous Merengues, without ideas and above all without much solidarity. This lack of energy deeply irritated Carlo Ancelotti, worried about the prospect of dropping more points along the way.
According to information from Marca, the Madrid coach lost his nerve at half-time, reminding his players that the attitude displayed was unacceptable. Especially since without a great Thibaut Courtois, Casa Blanca could have returned to the locker room two or three goals behind. An inexplicable lethargy for the Italian coach. “We were so bad in the first half. I couldn’t believe my eyes,” he said in a post-match press conference.
According to Cadena SER, Carlo Ancelotti was so piqued that he immediately sent all his substitutes to warm up after Duro’s goal (27′), an extremely rare occurrence. In the second period, Real Madrid finally reacted quickly, through Kylian Mbappé first time (penalty caused, missed by Bellingham in the 55th minute), then a second time five minutes later (goal rightly refused).
Valencia therefore clearly left the keys to the game to the madridistas, who were not asking for so much. After the convincing returns of Brahim and Camavinga, Vinicius received a red card for a bad move on Dimitrievski. Outnumbered, Real Madrid managed to multiply their attacks, until they equalized through Modric (85′), who entered five minutes earlier. Jude Bellingham finally delivered the Madrilenians in added time thanks to an error by the Valencia defense.
A victory obtained with forceps which benefits Real Madrid from an accounting point of view (Liga leader) but also nourishes the speech of Carlo Ancelotti, capable of waking up his troops at the appropriate time. After the post-Milan fury, the wrath of the Merengue technician has once again borne fruit.
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