Rodrygo stepped on the ball, turned around and stunned Samu Costa. Two seconds later, Benzema took advantage of the Brazilian's gift to score 2-0. The dribbling was worth the price of admission in the placid afternoon Real Madrid lived at the Santiago Bernabéu, where the defenses took a breather and the public had a great time with one occasion after another. The result was a restorative win against a rowdy but too harmless Almería, who gave the last push to the thick veil that covers the debacle suffered in Girona by the whites.
With the Cup final and the Champions League semifinal against City just around the corner, the scoreboard is a breath of fresh air for Ancelotti's team. Given Modric's injury, the Italian gave command of the team to Ceballos, and the Andalusian complied with a remarkable high, very participatory. Thinking about future appointments, Madrid barely rotated Valverde and Carvajal, quite the opposite of Rubi, who put up to eight new faces on the green. Rotation in capital letters, perhaps handing over the weapons ahead of time thinking about the next visit of Elche to the Mediterranean.
Wounded in their pride after what happened in Montilivi, Madrid chose to end the duel on the fast track. From the first play, the eleven players from Almería lived in their own field, unable to calm down the game and suffering from white attacks. From the very first play, Vinícius was very eager to please, making Mendes dizzy with an almost insulting superiority. The second time he confronted him, he already invented the first one in the afternoon. Just five minutes into the game had passed and he had already given a goal to Benzema, another of the names of the game.
With the League very complicated, catching Lewandowski in the pichichi has become the objective of the French. Signing a hat-trick was quite a declaration of intent. Back to Vinícius, his exhibition also had its negative side, since he again got involved in protests and saw a yellow card that will prevent him from playing in San Sebastián against Real Sociedad. In addition, he ended up with a painful blow to his right knee and asked for the change.
Rodrygo invented the second of the match with one of those dribbles for posterity. He ended the victory for Madrid then and Almería grew somewhat, with an undetectable Ramazani. But it was precisely the small Belgian striker who committed a penalty against Lucas Vázquez that certified Benzema's third goal. He had time to make up for it before the break, with the play that made it 3-1, the work of Lázaro, who gave encouragement to Rubi's men.
Those hopes were crushed as soon as the second half began, when Rodrygo grabbed the ball on the edge and placed it violently in Fernando's squad. That goal seemed, this time, to lower the curtain on the game but Rubi began to put his usual starters on the field and found Robertone's header that closed the gap.
The last half hour of the game was electric, with Madrid attacking in a rush but, surprisingly, the score did not budge. Rodrygo repeated, but offside. The VAR corrected a penalty awarded by Cuadra Fernández in favor of Real Madrid. The post denied poker to Benzema. Camavinga also headed a goal offside and the post first, and the crossbar later, prevented Marco Asensio's goal. White's victory was final.
