And now it's a black crisis. Madrid not only failed to score, but lost 1-0 to Vitoria against Alaves, with Manu Garcia's header in the 95th minute. Defeat of the blancos that did not arrive in Mendizorroza since 1931. Lopetegui's team made a point in the last 3 games of Liga, losing with Sevilla and Alaves and drawing the derby. In the middle also the defeat of Moscow. Madrid reaches 409 minutes without goals, almost 7 hours of play. Only twice in his 116 years of glorious history the Casa Blanca had put in 4 games without goals: Lopetegui became the third technical to enter the club, and its clouds are becoming denser and darker.
Lopetegui tried to change something, but found nothing. As against Roma he left Asensio on the bench with 4-4-2 with Ceballos on the left of Modric, Casemiro and Kroos and Bale and Benzema in front. The Frenchman did not score from 6 games and he came to 7: after having missed a header at the beginning, with a good start in Madrid but which lasted less than a quarter of an hour, the Frenchman at 45 'left place in Mariano.
The Alaves in the two previous games winning would have gone in the head but the vertigo came, he drew with the Getafe and lost to the Levante. He came shy again, suffering from the pressure of Madrid, but Pacheco was good on Ceballos and Laguardia acrobatic on the line to stop Benzema. Madrid has lost speed and therefore danger, the Basques have risked less.
In the second half Mariano offered some shy spark and after an hour Lopetegui also tried with Asensio for Casemiro, deploying a Madrid with strong front-wheel drive. So much possession, no chance for the blancos, with the Alaves in an orderly wait in the pouring rain that replaced the sun with which the race had begun. And Jony wasted a counter attack by shooting out the diagonal when he was alone in front of Courtois.
A quarter of an hour after the end Bale asked for the change: the Welshman was out at the end of the first half in the derby with Atletico and had been left to rest with CSKA, even if the Madrid report said he had nothing. Before going out, he pulled a punishment, confusing even more his ideas about his state of health, but evidently there is something. In its place the young Vinicius, who has done nothing. And with the last action of the race came the goal of the Alaves: corner for the head of Sobrino, Courtois rejects as he can and the ball ends up on the head of the local idol, Manu Garcia who is not wrong and leads the Alaves alongside of Madrid in the standings. The face of Florentino Perez in the stands is a whole program.
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