#Wittels- Posted January 6, 2022 Posted January 6, 2022 Two lucky final goals alleviate a coarse white team that again suffered against the spirited Alcoyano, who shook them in the first half and tied them in the second For a quarter of an hour, in the same place, at the same time and almost at the same time of the year, all the ghosts appeared to Madrid that led to one of its great skids of modern times in the Cup. Dani Vega in the middle of the second half and a white team until then very coarse was seen again with water around their neck in El Collao for their illustrious rival, who in the day to day does not exceed half of the table in the First Federation (the third national category), like Castilla. Luckily for him, never better said, this time he found the key in time. Because there were two lucky goals in two minutes who deactivated the local flood, with fans already rubbing their eyes in disbelief at the possibility of a second consecutive feat. It was not so. Madrid ended up applying the medicine of the big team to them in this type of conflict. Absolutely absent of brilliance, he hit his rival on the few occasions he had. In the first ball that was under the three sticks of local hero José Juan, Militão's 0-1, just like last season. And after the equalizer, when more cold sweats ran through his body, fearful of another total loss in the same crime scene, two consecutive targets in a couple of rebounds resolved the ballot. In the end, there were minutes even for Ceballos, fresh out of a serious injury suffered at the Games. Perhaps heralded by the precedents and aware of the pitfalls of this type of excursion to po[CENSORED]r fields, Carlo Ancelotti avoided turning El Collao into the scene of a casting. He thought that it was not a night for opportunities for the meritorious, but for the white security support (Militão, Alaba and Casemiro) to avoid another cup blowout. He said that he would put the best possible team with all the absences that he dragged (Carvajal, Bale, Courtois, Benzema, Modric, Mendy, Vinicius and Jovic) and only Lucas Vázquez and Kroos were saved from the beginning. The Italian did not sit in the lineup, but it took Madrid a world to find relief. Not even when he seemed to have found his way did he. At four minutes, Camavinga had already released a ball that was going in. The little boy's predictable animosity lasted too long for the visitors. Until 0-1, Alcoyano cuddled up, looked for the long balls, the second plays and, if not, retreated back effectively. A plan that made whites pupate. So much so that for not a short time his only exit was the balls. Without Kroos or Modric, it was difficult for Camavinga and Valverde to send in the spinal cord, always haunted by local pressure. The Frenchman is a troublemaker, though he still lacks the break to tame. And the Uruguayan, between injuries and substitutions, moves more and more silently. Once the wide area was deactivated, there were not even crumbs of Hazard, Rodrygo and Mariano at the top. A shiver from the Brazilian and an action rudely resolved by the Spanish-Dominican were the only attack plays by the visitors until Militão came out of nowhere. Lunin had no reason to be noted on his list of merits, but the focus was on him and not on José Juan, who spent the first time in the hammock until the white center-back made him 0-1. Mariano's injury The disadvantage seemed to ease Alcoyano after the break. It was no longer so high, nor was it pressing so high. The discouragement and, probably the fatigue, made him recoil a few meters, a circumstance that Madrid thanked him to feel less uncomfortable, although not finer. Mariano had been injured in the first action of the second act and Ancelotti entered Asensio, replacing Hazard as a false nine. However, the entry of one more touch player did not give the whites more light in attack. The best chances, still 0-1, were two long shots from Alaba. There was no clarity, but the sensation was of greater white control. Until Dani Vega took all of Madrid out of the wheel and made the bench jump for a while. He received a shock from Mourad's chest, beat Casemiro in the race, left him and Militão seated, and placed it wonderfully with his left at the far post. more spaces, an Asensio shot in the front bounced off Raúl González calmed the whites, who after two minutes were sentenced in a very run-down action. The locals failed in a clearance and, between a good control by Isco and the inadvertent touch back from José Juan while he overwhelmed the Malaga player, they settled the matter. The intrigue and white fear includes lasted a quarter of an hour. The lack of lucidity, all night. Ancelotti: ”We did what we should. If you don't fight, you lose, like a year ago ” With his mask pulled up in many moments of the game, Carlo Ancelotti followed with the same calm as always the new intrigue film that awaited Real Madrid at El Collao a year later. This time, yes, with a happy ending for their interests. According to the Italian coach's analysis, it was what he expected. “We had prepared a different game, with the duels, the set pieces ... We scored in a corner and we fought. We played the game we had to do ”, he said on two occasions, underlining the idea that he had not imagined anything else about his time in Alcoy other than a lackluster, but essential victory. He admitted, yes, that he had suffered. "Of course I do," he said. “They matched the game in a very good individual action, of quality. Afterwards we have not lost our minds and we have continued playing the game, it was not possible to play another match. This is the one we had prepared, "he added. "We made it. It is not our type of match because putting quality in these types of days is not possible. We have shown the face of a team that usually plays with quality and that today has put it down and has fought. It is what it had to be. I repeat: if you don't fight here, you lose, like last year ”, stressed the Italian coach. For a while, the defeat of the previous year (2-1 in extra time against one less player) flew over the minds of everyone at the Alcoy stadium. Unlike Sunday in Getafe, the cup day was the moment to see Hazard again from the beginning on the left, although his performance did not come out, in the best of cases, from discretion. “The quality players have suffered more than the others. He has tried, then also like nine, like Isco, who has scored and I am happy for him. The whole team has delivered. Hazard, Rodrygo and these higher quality players have suffered more than others. I hope to see Hazard with confidence soon. You have to be more confident because you have the quality to do it. Little by little I think he will return ”. Link: https://elpais.com/deportes/2022-01-05/el-madrid-esquiva-un-desaguisado.html 1
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