Rodrygo gives Madrid the Cup and closes Ancelotti’s virtuous circle

Have the Madrid a player who plays away from the radar of cameras and defenses. A twentysomething who lives in the shadow of a star like Viniciusyour great friend. And yet Rodrygo He is to this day the fittest player for Real Madrid. He can score goals playing Benzemadestroy defenses disguising himself as Vinicius or win titles playing himself.

In sevilla, Rodrygo gave Ancelotti the squaring of the circle with two goals that knocked down a indomitable Osasuna who put everything on the field: desire, heart and football (2-1). But, as Ancelotti pointed out after being defeated at Anoeta, “in football the important thing is what happens on the pitch.” And there is Madrid has more stuck up. Title for the whites, the third of the season, and now for Haaland and Guardiola with nothing to lose.

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strategy crossover

Real Madrid, the team that never gives up, faced Osasuna, “soul, soul and more soul”, in the words of the longed-for Michael Robinson. For the whites it was the third final of the season. For the rojillos, the possibility of winning the first title in their history. THE MATCH. THE FINAL. warned Jagoba that the idea was to “keep the game alive as long as possible and make it long for Madrid”.

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— Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) May 6, 2023

But Ancelotti pointed out, in this fight of strategies, that he had cleared up any hint of laziness in his team with a simple message: “From experience I know that each end can be the last. And that’s what I have told them. Let them go out and enjoy because they don’t know When will they play the next one? Faced with such an argument there is no possible alibi.

at 90 seconds

And the message stuck with his players. so much that at 90 seconds Vinicius He beat Rubén Peña to the bottom line and put it behind so that Rodrygo put Madrid ahead. The first sent Osasuna to the canvas. As the Italian also said after the unappealable defeat in Anoeta: “The grass always dictates its sentence.” He heart of the pamplonicas and his people took the party to the area of Courtois, who after seven minutes had already made three saves. The first five balls dropped in the white area were headed by the rojillo attackers.

Given the loss of Nacho Vidal, and with Vinicius in a state of grace, Arrasate opted for a doble lateral on the right, but put to Moncayola, of a core nature, to cover the Brazilian. Before two minutes he was already signaled for the goal play and before twenty for a yellow card. It was obscene, each attack from Madrid’s left marked the Osasunista. Vinicius left at each oriented control. The goal could have come from both goals, but one Herrera’s majestic stop and a Vaseline from Abde that Alaba took out when he was on his way to the net prevented him. at half an hour Alaba pulled splinters at crossbar rojillo with the game being played on the wire.

Nougat tie

Vinicius, Benzema and Rodrygo seemed the Globertrotters against a courageous Osasuna who attacked by recycling the balls stolen from Madrid. The game took a breather, in the middle of the heat, but Vinicius was still on. A minute before the break, the Brazilian saw the yellow card for protesting, putting him back on at the edge of the abyss. And Osasuna bothered to create that situation with a rosary of players facing him: David García, Rubén Peña, Sergio Herrera and even the always moderate Arrasate pointed out to him. The rest was good for both.

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Arrasate did not move a piece after the restart and Madrid gathered around their area inviting Osasuna to go look for him. Or that feeling gave. But it went wrong. Because in a cross ball Torró appeared in the second line to put the tie and heat the environment more. The rojillo pride seemed that it was going to make the game long against Madrid. But only a quarter of an hour later another Vinicius, as in the first goal, won the bottom line and put it behind. he was shooting Kroos in the first instance, after an error in David García’s clearance, but Aridane covered the shot. However, the ball was bitten and the smartest, Rodrygopushed her into the net.

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The Brazilian insisted on closing the circle of excellence for the whites, winning all the competitions in two years. Osasuna did not surrender, all soul, that with Chimy in the field he put more fangs and risked more. But Carletto put chloroform on it with Modric y Camavinga sweeping the core with Valverde.

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Reddish tears that deserved greater joy for all the enthusiasm they displayed on and off the field. But Madrid does not play finals, they win them. At least that’s how it has been in 18 of the last 20. What’s up Haaland!