BarcelonaSecond consecutive defeat by a Real Madrid that does not turn round. Ten days after being thrashed at the Santiago Bernabéu against Barça (0-4), the Merengue team was clearly beaten again and set off all the alarms in Chamartín. In this case it was Milan, who are currently seventh in the Italian league, the executioner in a bad night that also complicates the future of the reigning Champions League champions in the competition (1-3).
Madrid is a party team without a plan. Unlike what he could imagine following the stellar arrival of Kylian Mbappé, Ancelotti‘s scheme is in trouble because he misses Toni Kroos, a footballer who ordered everything. Without the German, Fede Valverde is an overmatched midfielder with no tact to organize the team, Jude Bellingham is a shadow of what he meant last season and Vinícius Júnior vulgarizes his repertoire. It is also a disaster Aurélien Tchouaméni, who against Milan was in the picture of the two goals that Lunin received before the break. The French pivot was not fine in the play that offered the 0-1, the work of Thiaw in the 12’, nor in the action prior to the 1-2, scored by a Morata that was not well received. Only a converted penalty by Vini, who was applauded by the stands as a show of affection after failing to win the Ballon d’Or, kept the Whites alive heading into the second half.
But in the restart, and despite Ancelotti’s double change (Valverde and Tchouaméni out), Milan, who had not started well in the Champions League either, continued to be a threat in any transition or well-planned play. Lucas Vázquez was a toy for Rafa Leao, Musah crunched Mendy in runs into space and Pulisic and Reijnders were a nightmare every time they got between the lines. The Dutch midfielder, who completed a real supporter, was responsible for sparking the white crisis when he scored 1-3 in the 73rd minute. Because this time there was no horn blow and Madrid was not able to reproduce Dortmund’s feat of the day, when they came back from 0-2 down to end up winning 5-2. Having lost in Lille (1-0) and also in the classic, added to the fact of having important men like Carvajal seriously injured, has put Ancelotti in trouble and is inviting Florentino Pérez to move in the January market. If there are no moves to balance the staff, the white president faces a new one galacticidi against a plethoric Barça.
Even the VAR narrowly missed to overturn the 2-3 in front of a crowd that folded its sails when the final whistle had not yet sounded. Many people missed Lunin’s life-saving save to avoid 1-4 and the final booing of a team that has made life difficult in its fetish competition. The only unanimous cry in the evening at the Bernabéu was the silence in memory of the victims of DANA in Valencia. striking
