Anger, anger against the dying of the sky blue light. Or, alternatively, don’t be angry. Scoreline read 3-1 in the end, but for a long time on a beautiful soft February night in Bernabéu it felt like an act of extended cruelty, a chance to sit and watch real Madrid players pulled The wings are very slow from an aubergine-shirted butterfly.
The main implementer is Kylian Mbappé, who almost seems to sprint, or shirt his shirt, letting the exterior reach his talent on the route to a clean, crisp, almost relentless hat-trick.
Is this a great MBAppé performance? It had one metrics for 61 minutes: 20 touch, seven shots, three goals. It came against Madrid’s great European rivals last few years. It is also frictionless, almost not easy, first because MBAppé is brilliant, and second because its opponents are highly lacking in battle, desperation, or any kind of internal resistance.
Before kicking off there is a report that the TIFO’s home fan’s TIFO display was canceled at the last moment. According to Spain’s press the planned banner read: “You will not leave Bernabéu life,” a message considered, when it came down, so that it was not too good and a threat to death. In case it was only half right, because the city did not enter Bernabéu life, or show any clear signs of animation until it was too late.
Instead they spent the first half moving like zombied numbers, a Manchester City team haunted by ghosts themselves. There was a dreadful pathos in the eyes of PEP Guardiola on the edge of his technical place, united with all that air, the head gently under the lights, hearing his team laughing and applauding and went to the house of his great Iberian rival. There is at least some certainty today that his greatest city team has been formally completed. This is its awakening, even a strange fun.
For three minutes, Madrid did nothing. Then they scored, the goal made by two touches. Raúl Asencio raised a straight pass that was drifting on the head of Rúben Dias, which Mbappé Pirouetting seemed to spooked in the space behind him, a man who suddenly played football in the moon.
Ederson was pamped in a strange position on one side, perfectly placed for mbappé to lift the bouncing ball to the wind at night and then down to a gentle parabola onto the city net. Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior have made a sarcastic jump, regret the festival. Lads, it’s three minutes. This is a problem.
This is primarily a problem for Abdukadir Khusanov, who played in the right and left position to endure a public nightmare of his manager on both sides as Mbappé and Vinícius, the graveyard shift, a paper that he wasn’t just ready.
Each time Vinícius got the ball one by one on that side had a low, sensual hum from the crowd. In 22 minutes Khusanov lost himself above and left spinning like a man trapped in an invisible rotating door of Vinícius who allowed the ball to run on his body, wide open tracts of space that appears in simple movement. Khusanov has backward backward in such a dream -moved dream, which is surprisingly late for the game of his life.
Khusanov’s worst moments arrived in 33 minutes with their second. The final pass fell between mbappé and vinícius on the side of the area. Khusanov seemed surprisingly, unable to decide who stood as they scored and chose instead of standing near nobody while Mbappé took the ball and practiced it in the corner.
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It felt like an exhibition, with a fond of applause as white shirts ran to take a corner, Vegas-residency style. Even Madrid’s shots on the goal were felt by a little disdainful, a team running itself, which had been a moment. There is no approved roar in half an hour, just a ripple of polite applause, such as a gap that falls into a metropolitan theater. City players feel it, and hate it.
For MBAppé, it will come down as another night of climbing. “Mbappé came for nights like this!” Spain’s press has beenfed before the game, and this is undeniable. For this mbappé a legacy-mining exercise, a ladder toward Ballon D’Or.
This will require more stable trials than this. The city is a strange sight when they fall like this, but then it is always an unusual sports creature, so properly engineer, so success is killed. It makes sense that it should fall in the same easy way. The movements are still present, the plot of footballers rides in the same patterns.
But this is the equivalent of footballing a quiet walk around the morgue, no mess, no blood, just a disadvantage.
