Worrying bench

2022 has started for the agitated Real Madrid. Agitated in Getafe, at times surpassed in Alcoy and with the realization that when new faces were asked from the bench, it was necessary for those relays, the others, to fulfill their part of the deal. The game against Alcoyano served a good stretch of it as an extension of “the holidays” to which his coach alluded. Extra sin for players like Valverde, Hazard and Marcelo, who were news with respect to the Coliseum and that they have their peers (Modric and Kroos, Vinicius and Mendy, respectively) far ahead. The result was to see Ancelotti burning again.

The transalpine left moments in El Collao where he did not manage well to chew gum and hug his players at the same time, all ‘trapped’ by the mask. Valverde could not impose the tempo of Kroos nor the advance of Modric. Isco only appeared in the photo of the match thanks to the help of José Juan and Camavinga is another profile. Unexpectedly, the perfect situation has been opened to Ceballos to inoculate his flamenco football in this Madrid in which the troika of the medullary asks for a reliever.

It will have to come from Ceballos, because Ancelotti does not look up nor does he look down, he looks at the past. The glorious Pleistocene, that of footballers like Marcelo (1-1 came, again, for his band), slows down the promising future, that of Miguel Gutiérrez, who did not even travel. A Hazard who offers himself but flees from shooting at goal (not a kick against a First RFEF rival) instead of going to Peter’s impudence. Rafa Marín did not deserve a minute either. Unless an unexpected football meteorite appears, the Madrid quarry is condemned to not have credibility outside of Valdebebas. Carletto he is becoming, consciously or unconsciously, a generational handover denier.

Worrying bench

Lunin, warming up in Alcoy before the match against Alcoyano.

Lunin and her shortcomings with her feet

In goal, that replacement is ruled out by the Madrid coach himself, even if it is only for the Cup. Ancelotti refuses to assure Lunin that competition in full and the Ukrainian does not question him either. His footwork is more than worrying: he missed 17 of his 23 passes. Unheard.

Ancelotti promised that there would be Alcoyanazo II (“We are going to take it seriously”) and so it was, but with an asterisk next to the result. In a January as charged as it is presented to Madrid, the wardrobe is still on vacation.

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Worrying bench