To have swing in music is to use a special rhythmic language. Having a good golf swing means starting each hole as a winner. Having a swing in football is having what Rodrygo has, whether it ends in a goal or not. When shown, that swing is capable of representing what its meanings say in all orders: the good beginning, the rhythm and the best ending. He performed it in a place where they know a lot about rhythms, after reproducing on the area with his driving the parabola of a golfer to hole the ball with precision. It was lilting. It was subtle. It was deadly. It was the same thing twice. [Narrative and statistics (0-3)]
The two actions opened a victory for Madrid in Cádiz that made them sleep as leaders, and a video library memory in an interwar match, with few other things to remember. Rodrygo progressed on the wing of the absent Vinicius, the same one that Mendy advanced on, deep, and Bellingham dropped in, on his return after the shoulder injury. In the action of the first goal, he interacted with the Englishman and left the background to go out and look for the moment of the shot. For the Cádiz defenders, the entry was reckless because they were in the area.. In the second goal, already in the second half and with the same swing, he found fewer obstacles.
The chemistry with Bellingham was constant, because they are two footballers in permanent movement, who like to look for the erogenous zones of the field. They associate well because they think the same way. The assist to Bellingham so that his return was a return with a goal, the eleventh in the League in 14 days, culminated the excellent performance of the Brazilian before Ancelotti gave him a rest after the selection day. In fact, he started due to Brahim's sudden illness.. There are bad days for your belly to hurt.
A wicked loop
Rodrygo, who started the season without a goal, felt the opportunity as if it were his last and looked for the fruit every time he could, even to the point of individualistic excess in some option that had better alternatives.. When he wanted to be generous, he did not understand Joselu and the confusion prevented the clearest goal, surpassed by Ledesma.
Between injury and injury, Ancelotti feels more like the manager of a bumper car track than a coach. It's not the only one. You have to play less, repeat. You have to charge less, even if you don't repeat it. Football is in a perverse loop of which the players are not always victims, but also accomplices: if they play a lot, they complain; If they play little, too.
Modric plays everything with Croatia, everything he can with Madrid and not everything Ancelotti would like, because his science of the game cannot be replicated in the Madrid that is coming.. Not for now. He returned to the starting lineup in Cádiz after having emptied himself with Croatia in two games to lead his team to another European Championship. He left a ball on the post in Cádiz and all his effort, before retiring stiffly. Normal. At the Bernabéu he is a hero of the game, but in his country he is a national hero. He who has commitment, has it everywhere. So leave Luka alone, and enjoy whatever you see.
High pressure in Cádiz
Since the Metropolitano, the Croatian and Kroos had not been starters again, but without Tchouaméni or Camavinga, and with Ceballos out due to injury, the coach returned to the old matrix in the eleven. Ceballos later had his minutes.
Rodrygo's first swing tilted a clash that had started more threatening for Cádiz, with shots from Feli, Navarro and a free kick taken by Javi Hernández. The most compromised thing for Madrid caused an excellent flight by Lunin and a stop by Ocampo in the ending. Cádiz's high pressure was full of good intentions on the part of Sergio González, but the spaces that Madrid found in their retreat were a risk for the locals. Cádiz's segment is the fight for permanence, nothing changes, but 10 games without winning is a dangerous trend. Sergio needs to get back to the starting point, now that there is time for everything.
Ancelotti is on the desired roadmap despite the injuries, provisional leader waiting, today, for Girona's match against Athletic. He has the youth team to look for alternatives, with a new debutant in Cádiz, like Gonzalo, in addition to Nico Paz, but with the Italian the youth team always arrives after the swing.