An hour and a half in the game. A great Celta left him in the bones and stuck in the centrifuge of a rampant football and identity crisis three days before the visit of Manchester City. The expulsions of Fran García in the 64th minute and Carreras in stoppage time revealed a deranged team. He finished with nine, but the game did not find him with 11 or 10.
0
Thibaut Courtois, Álvaro Carreras, Eder Military, Mil. 23), Raúl Asencio (Rodrygo, min. 53), Fr.
2
Ionut Radu, Carl Starfelt, Marcos Alonso, Javi Rodríguez, Ilaix Moriba, Óscar Mingueza (Ferran Jutglà, min. 70), Miguel Román (Fran Beltrán, min. 83), Sergio Carreira, Bryan Zaragoza (Javi Rueda, min. 70), Pablo Durán (Williot Swedberg, min. 45) and Borja Iglesias (Iago Aspas, min. 87)
Goals
0-1 min. 53: Williot Swedberg. 0-2 min. 92: Williot Swedberg
Referee Alejandro Quintero González
yellow cards
Jude Bellingham (min. 61), Fran Garcia (min. 62), Alonso (min. 72), Moriba Kourouma (min. 82), Álvaro Carreras (min. 90), Rodrygo (min. 91), Federico Valverde (min. 91)
red cards
Fran Garcia (min. 63), Álvaro Carreras (min. 91)
From the five points advantage with which they left the classic, they are four behind Barcelona. . The Xabi Alonso of these days, the least interventionist with the stars, kept all the heavyweights on the field, but neither. Celta, better from coast to coast, did not need any heroics to stop a squad that only had the resource of the little ones, hanging balls.
Madrid started the night as if it were an interwar match between San Mamés and City. He had not stepped foot in the Bernabéu for 36 days, but the event did not stimulate the whites enough from the start. , football belonged to Celta. It didn’t take long for the classic whistles to be heard from the stands, annoyed with the lack of activity of their team.
The Vigo team surpassed the locals as they wanted and threatened with breaks from Pablo Durán, who after eight minutes received a great delivery from Bryan Zaragoza. The shot was blocked by Fran García. The first sign of the biggest tooth of the Galicians, better planted and more threatening. So, after a quarter of an hour, Xabi Alonso created an improvised timeout with Tchouameni, Vinicius and Bellingham, among others, taking advantage of the assistance to Ilaix Moriba. The nuts on his equipment were very loose. He had only created danger with a good header from Militão in a corner that required a firm hand from Radu.
The Brazilian was the next thing that went wrong. In her attempt to stop Durán, who had controlled her wonderfully with his spur and was about to focus on Courtois, she went to the ground with great pain in the back of her left thigh. He couldn’t even leave on his own. The first scan described the problem as “very worrying.” Rüdiger replaced him in a defense that already started patched up. Alonso had patched the right back with a central defender (Asencio) and in the rear axis he relocated a left back (Carreras). Another accident in a rear that lives in a constant medical report. On Wednesday, Trent Alexander-Arnold had already broken and joined an infirmary where Carvajal, Alaba, Mendy and Huijsen were (impossible for Wednesday in the Champions League, according to the club).
From scare to scare, Madrid did not raise their hand in the match until half an hour. It took a while for all of this to begin to unfold with more vitality. Despite the white cachaça, they still went into the break with a few chances. A shot in the small area by Güler, somewhat forced, went by a finger and Vinicius’ shot after a deep pass was taken out by Radu. Madrid had improved, but the sharp Pablo Durán did not let up and, in a great delivery from Borja Iglesias, he failed to score against Courtois.
The break brought back a Celta without Durán, who had had shoulder problems, but not without edge. Willot Swedberg, substitute for the youth squad, finished off a Zaragoza cross wonderfully and set off Madrid’s alerts. Rodrygo, who before the goal was already ready to leave, relieved Asencio. The disadvantage, far from finally connecting the whites, unsettled them like a lesser team. All the cables were disconnected from Fran García and two fouls in two minutes, the second meaningless in the center of the field, sent him to the cold shower under the desperate gaze of Xabi, who sent Gonzalo García instead of Güler. If the game did not appear, the Basque released all the cavalry.
It took Mbappé 74 minutes to appear in the rival area, but his shot went high. There were 20 minutes left, but in all that time only Gonzalo threatened with a header. The last nail was put by Swedberg with the 0-2. The end of a Madrid that is falling off a cliff.
