Robert Morales |
Madrid (EFE) , after a placid victory against Celta with a goal and assists from Marco Asensio.
He is winning the contract improvement that Asensio demands from Real Madrid to continue. Taking advantage of every opportunity for Ancelotti to leave his mark with his left leg, always loaded to be a constant threat in any area in which he receives. He unlocked a nondescript game against Celta with a goal on the brink of rest from those who make a dent in the rival. A night with a physical exhibition of a wonder named Camavinga and a haggling recital by Vinícius.
Asensio’s left-footed shot, after a magnificent forward movement understanding the attack launched from Camavinga’s quality action, Ceballos’s tiralinés pass to Vinícius’s run and the back pass of the most unbalancing player in the competition, was the prize for a Real Madrid that measured the waste of energy to the maximum until it had fun from a clear superiority.
It was regulated to the maximum start, despite the five changes in Ancelotti’s starting team. He played idle and it didn’t cost him any dose of suffering. Installed in the opposite field, he dwarfed an ineffective Celta in attack. With Aspas off and always on the verge of being offside, all eyes turned to Gabri Veiga’s debut at the Bernabéu. Good manners, will, some quality action but unable to make a dull team shine.
Vinícius and his show
This is how Real Madrid’s fight against an inhuman calendar began, feeling the difficulty of putting intensity with the focus on other battles and the wear and tear of the recent ones won. The only indisputable person who does not understand playing with a lower gear is Vinícius. At 21 minutes he began his show with a school heel to Ceballos that Benzema ended unsuccessfully.
It was the first of a footballer who exhibits overwhelming superiority over every player who gets in his way.
The day that Karim was able to hunt down Hugo Sánchez as the fourth top scorer in the history of the Spanish League, he exposed an imprecise version. Without his usual finesse to complete the actions he never tired of drawing ‘Vini’. The Brazilian made the game eternal for Kevin, also conditioned by a yellow card in the first act. The attempts by Asensio, Vinícius, Ceballos and Nacho, today at right back ahead of Lucas Vázquez in Carvajal’s rotation, were warnings.
Celta held out for 42 minutes until Camavinga imposed his physique and Asensio his scoring streak. The feeling of the game being over was confirmed by the lack of reaction from a team in a no-one’s zone, as far removed from Europe as it is from the suffering of those fighting for permanence. That translates into a lack of intensity in the brand. And so came the second for Real Madrid. Once again Asensio’s left foot, this time to assist Militao’s gliding from the corner kick. At pleasure, without any rival on top of him, he finished off powerfully into the net three minutes after the restart.
Nothing would lift Celta off the canvas. Not one of those errors due to overconfidence by Militao, which Seferovic forgave, or two occasions by Aspas. He fired into the stands of the Bernabéu the first and ran into the size of Courtois in the second, in a one-on-one in which he thought he would win with his cut before the stretch from the Belgian goalkeeper who has left a clean sheet in five of their last six games.
The game was Vinícius’s show, brilliant every time he came into play, laying out the goal for Benzema who headed down but ran into Villar’s best save. He brought out every possible variety of dribbles for maximum fun until Ancelotti decided it was time to rest. Real Madrid had already complied while waiting for the Cup final and the great duel against City.
Datasheet:
2 – Real Madrid: Courtois; Nacho, Militao, Rüdiger, Camavinga; Tchouameni, Ceballos (Modric, m.81), Fede Valverde; Marco Asensio (Lucas Vazquez, m.76), Vinicius (Rodrygo, m.81) and Benzema.
0 – Celtic: Iván Villar; Kevin Vázquez (Medrano, m.78), Unai Núñez, Renato Tapia, Javi Galán (Swedberg, m.73); Fran Beltrán, Gabri Veiga (Óscar, m.63), Solari (Cervi, m.46), Luca De La Torre; Iago Aspas and Seferovic (Patience, m.63).
Goals: 1-0, m.42: Marco Asensio. 2-0, m.48: Military.
Referee: Mateu Lahoz (Valencian committee). He admonished Ceballos (45) for Real Madrid; and Kevin (19) and Galán (70) for Celta.
Incidents: match corresponding to the thirtieth day of LaLiga Santander played at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium before 60,386 spectators.