“We only play three points”

Only Florentino knows if Xabi Alonso spoke this Sunday in the Bernabéu press room for the penultimate time. The fall of the white team since the victory against the classic is not over. From +5 to -4 in just forty days they leave … Madrid already has a certain distance to fight for the championship, and what is worse, with a feeling of apathy and abandonment that has no justification: “It was not the match we wanted and expected. We missed things and we only reacted with one less. That’s when we pushed and ran. “People are angry and we understand that, and now we have to show another side on Wednesday,” Alonso said.

It was an analysis with a few crumbs, but from there Alonso put it on autopilot and went like the worst “There are only three points today and there is still a lot of championship left. “We can have a bad game at home.”

Reflections full of clichés and empty of content that do not help to improve what was a depressing image on the pitch, as happened last month, even in the victory in Athens, where from midfield to back the team was a disaster. Even the excuse of the two red cards against Celta does not save this half-dead Madrid: “The referee’s decisions disturbed us. Álvaro’s card is very questionable, as if he really wanted it… I didn’t like the refereeing at all and it made us lose control a little. A justification that he reiterated regarding Militao’s injury: “It was difficult for us to recover from this incident. “We have a lot of injuries.”

In the final chaos, after Carreras’ red card, a frustrating “take more red cards” could be read on Vinicius’ lips. And so it was. Endrick, one of several substitutes who protested the Galician’s two consecutive yellow cards (the second for telling him “you’re horrible”), was also sent off. A global upheaval which reopens the wounds of a Madrid on the limit. At least his coach, even if he doesn’t want to see it: “We are all responsible and the responsibility for change belongs to everyone. On Wednesday, we have a great opportunity in a competition in which we are well placed.”

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