Liverpool puts Real Madrid in an extreme situation

Liverpool defeated Real Madrid again fifteen years later and leaves the whites in an extreme situation. Superior from start to finish in another night to be forgotten by the Chamartín team in their fetish competition, this Wednesday the ‘reds’ put an end to a streak of eight consecutive games without beating the fifteen-time king of Europe, imposing a devastating pace that He ended up suffocating his opponent.

Goals from Mac Allister and Gakpo in the second half knocked down the visiting side, which had until then managed to resist the local harassment by clinging to a once again immense Courtois, but which ended up bending the knee against the British team, so overwhelming in the maximum continental competition as in the Premier.

Unblemished leader in the star club tournament, Arne Slot’s team seems the antithesis of this limp Real Madrid that finishes the fifth day of the Champions League in twenty-fourth position with only six points and delimiting the places that give access to the round of 32. With direct qualification for the round of 16 already becoming a chimera, they will have to push hard to save their furniture. And you should give thanks if you do. Unusual considering its size.

Ancelotti had little room for maneuver when it came to making his eleven due to the six absences that Real Madrid had due to injury. However, it is worth recognizing the Italian’s intrepid will. He kept Valverde as a right-back orthopedic, he once again paired Asencio with Rüdiger in the axis of the rearguard to fight Liverpool’s ‘miuras’ in a thunderous square and combined the experience of Modric with the effervescence of Arda Güler in the room of machines. Upstairs, the sparkling Brahim accompanied a nebulous Mbappé to date.

It was about making a virtue of necessity, a sentence that Carletto clung to in the previous one, stoic in the midst of misfortune. They tried to apply the spirit of that philosophical school founded by Zeno of Citium at the beginning of the 3rd century BC. C. the disciples of the Reggiolo strategist at Anfield, but they were swept away by an almost perfect machine.

This Liverpool, as electric as Jürgen Klopp’s but better protected with Arne Slot, does not allow a single mistake. Real Madrid had it early and miraculously did not pay the bill. Mbappé fell asleep while driving and the defensive gear failed in a chain, allowing Darwin Núñez to freely unleash a devilish lash. Courtois saved and Asencio was complicated in the first instance, who corrected in time to avoid an own goal on the line that could have meant a cross for the youth player.

Slot changed to the 4-3-3 that characterized Klopp’s Liverpool and Real Madrid had no choice but to put on overalls to contain the metal spirit of the ‘reds’. Much of the credit went to Courtois, superb in actions that are settled in red heat. Salah is still tormented by the nightmares that the Belgian caused him in the final in Paris. Darwin Núñez suffered the same ordeal this Wednesday, blinded in a point-blank shot by the Bree giant. The Uruguayan tried it, moving away from his nemesis to cross a header that beat the goalkeeper but he left licking the post. Luis Díaz also tried his luck, without Courtois rushing this time.

Real Madrid joined forces, determined to resist the siege and aware that they had bullets capable of breaking the sound barrier against them. Mbappé did it, licking his lips when Bradley aborted the ride. It was played bare chested, although the field was tilted in favor of the locals, a hammer. Real Madrid lacked offensive threat, and they were grateful for the rest after the hot flashes of the first half.

A soul in pain

Liverpool upped the ante after the intermission, subjecting Real Madrid to a very tough stress test. Another burst was aborted by Courtois, but even the Belgian’s miracles are finite and Mac Allister took advantage of a wall with Bradley to pierce the wall.

Like a weak dog everything is fleas, the scenario was even darker with the injury of Camavinga, who suffered a puncture and left his team without what until then was the best visiting player along with Courtois. Ancelotti reconfigured his troops, enlisting Lucas Vázquez to cover the right back and move Valverde to the center of the field, where he also placed Ceballos, sacrificing Arda Güler, willing but not at all fine.

Real Madrid was able to take a breath when Robertson stepped on Lucas Vázquez in the area. Unbeatable opportunity for Mbappé to exorcise his demons. Not even for those. Expectations weigh like a weight on Bondy, to whom Kelleher guessed the shot from eleven meters. The ‘9’ wandered around Anfield like a soul in pain. Salah emulated him, who sent a penalty committed by Mendy on the Egyptian to limbo. Courtois has his morale fueled.

He left alive the Pharaoh’s ruling against Real Madrid, a professor in resurrections since the dawn of time. Fran García came on for Mendy, overwhelmed and signaled, without Liverpool slowing down. The English team, whose strategy also works, worked hard in search of second. Gakpo headed into the net after a poorly defended corner kick, again by Real Madrid, as happened the previous day against Milan. Ancelotti burned his last bullet by removing Modric, applauded again at Anfield, to add more gunpowder to the top with the emergence of Endrick, but there was no room for the epic and Real Madrid was left on the ropes.