.Zidane: "We have to put more life into our game"

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With the leadership of LaLiga lost in favor of Barcelona after consummating Madrid their first league defeat of the season, that raft that had become the domestic championship ended up punctured in Mallorca, leaving the Zinedine Zidane team drifting around a Island in permanent revelry. Hours before the match began, in the vicinity of Son Moix the party seemed organized regardless of what happened inside. As if both things didn't necessarily have to be connected. The fans of Mallorca did not celebrate previous happiness, in case they later did not find the reasons, but the mere fact of finding themselves again before an exiled party from the islands in the last six years. And the return could not be better received.

"I don't like the word worried," Zidane began with a worried gesture. "I did not like the game, it has been difficult for us to enter," said the Madrid coach, who again did not delve into the reasons why his team suffered again from lack of concentration in the first minutes. “Mallorca is a team that we knew what he was playing at, that he was at home, and that he does not deserve to be where he is on the table [now he is 14th after two straight wins] and it has been seen. It has been difficult for us to create a game, and we have not been able to really create goal occasions, ”lamented the Frenchman, who composed an eleven with an unprecedented center of the field with Isco, Casemiro and James.

“The problem is that we have to show every three days that we are good. That is our difficulty and that is what we do not do. We must have continuity. Something we did well, really. But we have to have more continuity. We have to put more life into our game if we want to do important things this year, ”he said. “We cannot remember the players that are not there. Do not look for excuses. The others are good too and we have to prove it always and it has cost us today, ”he said, before referring to the decisive Champions match on Tuesday against Galatasaray. “We know what we are going to play. We have to play a good game to win because there is no choice. We have to think about winning. ”

"The coach had told us that they were going to start with enthusiasm the first five or 10 minutes and it cost us," Courtois acknowledged. "The one who scores a goal [LAKE JÚNIOR] is right-handed and puts it well on the second post," said the Belgian, who fit in the 14th shot that his ninth goal of the season receives as goal. The reaction of the public after the target of Lago Júnior did nothing but endorse that happiness that only football knows how to take to the limit. “We knew how to play them and we thought we could beat them because they had many casualties. We are happy, because we took advantage of our opportunity and we knew how to harm them, with pressure and against them and that's how the goal came ”, said the Ivorian hero of Mallorca. “We played the game we had to do. There were times when we lacked tranquility, but in the end you have to have some luck and suffer. Everything has come together and from time to time you win Madrid, ”said Mallorca coach Vicente Moreno.

People were surprised at Madrid, unable to demonstrate on the field the difference between the two teams, blurred by a gray staging and without harmony that left Mallorca feeling dominating the scene practically throughout the game. Odriozola staged better than any other player in Madrid that feeling of drowning of the team that ended up taking him out of the game ahead of time after being expelled, the third time in nine days in which Madrid ends the game with one less man. “In the first yellow they take, he touches the ball but the second is fair. At that time with a card you don't need to, but it's normal with the adrenaline to win the game, ”Courtois said.

Four possessions lost Odriozola, eight Isco, the same as Marcelo, which resulted in a sequence of recoveries that allowed Mallorca to feel comfortable on the ledge of possession. The shortage of shots of Benzema and Jovic, who signed one goal between the two (the Frenchman sent a ball to the crossbar), did not require Manolo Reina, who completed four stops without risk of goal, in the second game of the course in the that whites stay at zero.