Al Real Madrid He loves living in the wire. Cannot avoid it, and less in the Santiago Bernabéu. It is as if it were addicted to adrenaline that emerges in the environment every time it looks half dead. Against the Real Sociedad He destabilized again, to fall into the canvas, to resurrect in an instant and to dispute the Third extension of an agonizing season. All, in addition, in a 2025 in which the Ancelotti box has no rest.
After the Celta in cup rooms and the Atlético In the eighths of Champions, the white team gave wings to the Txuri-Urdin to force the extra time of a crazy semifinal. Delusional in his last minutes on his way to the final of The Cartuja. There was everything: murmurs at the beginning for Barrene’s goal, shy whistles to Lucas Vázquez, applause for Endrick’s great goal, ovation to the Brazilian when he retired, disappointment by 1-2, booed general after 1-3 of Oyarzabal that left the whites eliminated, relief in the 2-3 of Bellingha extension, ecstasy after the 3-3 of Tchouaméni that gave the pass and global bitterness by the 3-4 of Oyarzabal who put the game again in extra time. Five goals in 30 minutes … and Rüdiger’s final madness for 4-4.
The anger in the template and in the coaching staff of Madrid was evident. Bellingham walked towards the corrillo prior to the extension cursing the failed occasions, such as Mbappé, while Ancelotti chatted with Alabasurely asking for explanations for the defensive imbalance of the last half hour of the party.
The Italian game reflected the anxiety of the team, which was seen in the face of a new physical effort within a strenuous year. Davide and Francesco Mauri They tried to give some instruction, but the faces were very tired.
The game, broken, seemed to be for the speed of Viniciuswhile in the lunin area nothing seemed controlled. Maybe that’s why Ancelotti put in overtime Fran García and Rüdiger To rebuild an absolutely destroyed defense by the Real, one of the least division scorers.
The picture of Sheriff He had only scored 27 goals in the 29 league daysthe third worst fact of the competition, improving only Valladolid (19) and Getafe (26). But he arrived at Bernabéu and saw the door four times against Lunin. An inexplicable situation for Carletto, desperate in band and with a series of decisions that caught the attention of the stands, such as the replacement of Endrick at the time of the game.
In the stops after 90 minutes and after the first part of the extension, in the Madrid squad reigned calm. Bellingham tried to take care of the crampsAsencio asked for change, Ancelotti spoke quietly with Modric and Vinicius, Mbappé walked quickly towards the center of the field to resume the game … An extreme relaxation fruit of the experience in this type of moments.
In front, the Circle of the Real shouted in unison a «A, two, three, real!»That was heard throughout the Bernabéu, silenced by moments, waiting for the beginning of the function.
And the adrenaline explosion, that which makes this stadium breathe, came with the head goal of Rüdiger. The third in the German season after the marked to Dortmund and al Stuttgart In Champions, the one that led Madrid to the final of La Cartuja, where he will wait for Atlético or Barça. The German received in the celebration the collejas that he usually gives to others and rested his head on the grass, of knees, always religious, giving thanks for the lived occasion.
Somewhat who lifted Madrid in Another extension of which he was triumphing. As in the previous two of this year, as in Manchester last year, as in the extra time of the 2024 Spanish Super Cup against Atlético, as in the 2022 Champions League qualifiers … In total, the whites have played twelve extra times since the 21-22 course and have overcome eleven, losing only before Atlético in Cup in 2024. It is his way of being.
In the press room, the hardest protagonist was Imanol sheriffwho complained about an assumption off Mbappé in Bellingham’s 3-3 and He denounced the “aid” that, according to him, Madrid received during the party. “They have eliminated us having aid in a section that has to be neutral.Madrid is a great and does not need aid. I am very clear that they would not have given the goal if it had passed in the other area, “criticized the coach, while Remiro said he had “the dead hand” when he hit Bellingham’s face Within the area, an action in which Madrid requested penalty. Ancelottifor his part, he declared that the entrance he had made Olasagasti from Viniciusat knee, “it was red, but I will not say anything else.”