At 93:25, when Mbappe fired a right hand into the area that didn’t take enough of a curve and ended up wide, Xavi knelt with his legs on the Montilivi turf. As Mourinho did on that night of the 2011 Champions League semi-final penalty shootout, when Bayern left Madrid drowning on the beach. Real Madrid improved after a bad first half again, but the truth is that in November the white team could not beat Rayo, a recently promoted team like Elche and a relegated team like Girona: “I have no reprimands for the players because there was a reaction. We must continue this unity, with sufficient and necessary self-criticism, and with the desire to win away from home. “This Wednesday we have the opportunity to do that in Bilbao,” said Alonso. Xavi has taken the path of seeing the cup half full in this circle of holes that has already taken him to second place: “We needed more minutes to be more dominant and we must analyze why we could not do it from the beginning. In the season there are different phases and there are still many back and forths in the classification. We must continue to meet the demands that it takes to play for Real Madrid. “This is too long.” The contact that happened, they told me the play could be reviewed by VAR, surprisingly they didn’t. “It’s a decisive play that defines the match: “I think Rodrygo does go down, and the VAR correctly interprets it as minimal contact. “Vini is a good player, but in this by Rodrigo he tripped just before the call and I think it is not a penalty. A draw does not make Girona bad for another day. They will remain in the relegation positions, but emotionally it is a positive blow: “It is a good point, but we are still in the relegation positions and we will have to continue rowing.”