Real Madrid: Panic in the bowels of Anfield: Carlo’s 12 indications to Arda, a different footballer, the bench screen…

• JOEL DEL RIO

  Liverpool

Updated 11/28/2024 – 12:04CET

in england football is savored differently. It is seen standing, cheers up without looking at the scoreboardyou cry with happiness or sadness and enjoyed without worries. English football is first played in the streets, ones in which beer and cold circulate in both directionsand then on the playing field. AND Anfieldthe temple of Liverpool, is one of those stadiums that rescues the value of the stands within a sport that increasingly hides its beauty. Accustomed to our ‘high’ football, from the journalist’s point of view, where the tactics and movements of the players can be seen…and gets lost in the small details that make this sport great. Here they win by a landslide, with a closeness that almost transforms an experience full of stimuli and sensations into an immersive one..

With the press zone attached to the benches, sometimes it is necessary to take your eyes off the grass to observe what each coaching staff is up to as the minutes pass. The unknown always attracts more attention and The ability to watch how they try to turn a complicated situation around is even more satisfying than the end result.. And in the midst of an existential crisis and the white game, with the English team lurking around Courtois’s area… Carlo and Davidefather and son, turned over their script while trying to organize the football of Arda Güler. There were twelve indications, at least those that I had time to contemplate, to the young Turk to try to close ranks. They told him to join Camavinga and Modric, go to the side to help Fede in defense and so a string of requests that ended up saturating 15. “Arda has done a good defensive job. He could have been more correct because he has the quality to make a more appropriate decision. He is young and just lacks experience“, explained the Italian after the game to understand a little better the Turk’s misplacement on the pitch. “Arda, inside”, “Arda, help in defense” or “Arda, get together” were some of the desperate cries from the white bench.

A different footballer

With Camavinga behind the wheel it is better and much more fun. Of the 93 times he has been a starter for Real Madrid, The French footballer has played in four different positions: 38 times as an interior, 33 as a defensive midfielder, 19 as a left back and three as a false winger… and in all of them He has always shown his joy, no fear and a lot of self-confidence. Up close, the French footballer’s playing style is even more peculiar. He likes to constantly participate in the construction of the game, he doesn’t care where and how he receives the ball, without fear of turning and very easily breaking lines of pressure. At this moment, white football passes through his boots at the same time as he gives the first warning to try to steal the ball. And in defense… few are more involved than him. His energy and physical strength seem key to Madrid’s awakeningalthough now we will have to wait for the results of the medical tests to know the extent of his injury after noticing a puncture in his left leg in the 55th minute.

a horror movie

The beginning of the season Mbappe in Madrid it is the closest thing to a bad horror movie script. The night started with Gareth Bale on the Anfield grass, not as a player but as a commentator alongside Ferdinand and McManamanwith Rafa Nadal in the stands, with the entire team of the Boston Red Sox, The owner of both franchises is the samein the stadium… and with the French star as the protagonist of a film in which everything pointed to his ‘sports death’, the one that everyone knows is achieved when it is decided to divide the group and thus make the job easier for the villain to be able to kill one by one.

Last night’s game was confirmation that he is a footballer in crisisunable to reach his best level since he arrived at Real Madrid. Without trying to dribble, losing countless balls (15) and with low confidence. His gestures on the pitch were a true reflection of what should be going through his head in a match in which he ran out of excuses.. The Frenchman walked alone at Anfield, like a ship adrift, and what should have been his night ended up becoming a question that the white fan is now asking himself: Is he the same Mbappé as the one who flew high at PSG?

A television for complaints… and the request of the 3,000 Madrid fans

The night of white terror also left some good news such as the exam passed, with a grade, Raul Asencio. The youth player appeared in Europe saving a goal on the line, having a nice battle with Darwin Nuñezwhom he clearly won in an open field race, and showing that he is more than prepared for everything that awaits you. Always well outlined in each play, organizing with the help of Rüdiger… and without giving in to some forwards who thought that intimidation was enough to take him out of the game. It was not like that and from there a clash was born that brought out the screen of the white bench. The play was thoroughly reviewed and Lucas and Ceballos jumped to the fourth referee to tell them that the Uruguayan had started the train car.. An action repeated over time by Madrid’s substitutes with each match controversy or occasion sent to limbo.

Along the way, Jude Bellingham’s desperation was also seena footballer who is complicated see him make a bad decision on the pitchthe curious request of the 3,000 fans madridistas who went to Liverpool… who did not hesitate to ask for Endrick’s entry even though Nor have they been able to find out with the minutes that the Brazilian has had if he is prepared to succeed in Madrid. Perhaps the shots would point to the fact that news always excites. Also to the loneliness of Mbappé with the final whistle, the only footballer who did not shake hands with any rival footballer to face the locker room in the midst of the lament and sadness of those who do not know what is happening to them. And the white panic about a new edition of the Champions League that has not finished entering Madrid’s plans on the right foot. All this was savored in the bowels of Anfield, a stadium where one finds magic in every corner..