With two goals from Valverde and the brilliance of its Brazilians, Madrid defeated Milan. At its debut, Bellingham was well received.

An incomplete Thanks to two goals from Valverde and one from Vinicius, who was equally lauded in Los Angeles as the Bernabéu, Madrid was able to rally against Milan. It was in Bellingham’s debut, which was fine without being flashy; with a system change brought on by the Englishman’s signing; Benzema’s departure; and the lack of a first-instance nine; with the debuts of Joselu, Fran Garca, and Nico Paz; and with a classic conclusion: the brilliance of Vinicius and Rodrygo. By Madrid, that phase of the transformation is finished.

Curiosity is what keeps summer alive. Determine whether what is about to happen will make the situation better or worse. With four new players and a play-off, Brahim, this Madrid club is compҽlled to make smooth generational changes. Cristiano and Benzema’s empires fell in under five years. With the arrival of the second, the first survived. He now intends to play an entire course without a blue Ƅlood nine, which will be the hardest challenge yet. If he finally completes the necessary signing of Mbappé, who is secretly finishing his third preseason at Madrid, he won’t even have it. Ancelotti has therefore resolved it by system and register changes in the pressure.

This initial Madrid team, which included both starters and substitutes, played in a 4-3-1-2 configuration with Kroos as the center and Valverde, Camavinga, and Bellingham up front. Brahim and Joselu, who won’t be the first starting option, and Bellingham were the other two forwards. A larger and more ambitious pressure has also come with the shift from chemistry to physics. The team this year has more legs than last year, more options (only Odriozola is left and it appears that for a brief period of time from the quartet of registered but invisible substitutes), less sauce on the wings, and less goals. The best treatment for this deficit is Mbappé. Make marking a common practice instead.

Madrid’s practice sessions have long been filled with dynamite due to financial restrictions. In Los Angeles, he was met by a Milan team that was a semifinalist in the Champions League and had made six additions. Of those six, three were starters, including two players who were well known to Ancelotti’s team: Loftus-Cheek and Pulisic, fallen angels of the previous Chelsea. In other words, a team from the gourmet club quickly countered Madrid’s early dominance and took the lead on a corner goal. In the cramped space, between Militao and Nacho, with Lunin tucked under the posts, Tomori dispatched him in cold Ƅlood. Coaches pay attention to collective error.

The worst of Madrid was in front and their centrals were losing the ball too frequently. In one of them, Luka Romero, the Argentine who, in 2020, with Mallorca, became the youngest debutant in the Spanish League, scored the second goal with a stunning shot. He is now 18 and making good improvement.

Valverde’s canyon

At halftime, Ancelotti switched to the eight, and the eleventh player was more easily visible, particularly in attɑck with Rodrygo and Vinicius, which on this map pulls him away from the left flank, his garden. The adjustment is less traumatic for Rodrygo. He is better qualified for the job and is more comfortable in it. He entered the match like a bolt of lightning. Sportiello made an explosive start and took an outside shot. And with two goals from outside the area from Valverde, Madrid completed the task in under a minute. The first came with oil gloves as a present from Milan’s goalkeeper. The second is thanks to Tomori. For the Uruguayan, who begins as he did the year before, there is no unreachable distance.

In the second half, Rodrygo took the lead for a clearly better Madrid team until Pioli also brought out the best in his team, led by Rafael Leao. No one finished off his center, but he skipped Carvajal in his initial intervention. Earlier, Lunin’s exceedingly commendable intervention prevented Giraud from winning 3-2.

Vinicius, who was raised amid the Californian passion, ended the match by easily intercepting a pass from Modric and converting inside the area to demonstrate that Madrid’s comebacks are not seasonal.

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