2023-05-07 08:53:03
Real Madrid prevailed this Saturday by 2-1 against Osasuna in the final of the King’s Cup which was contested at the La Cartuja stadium, in Seville, where the Brazilian Rodrygo Goes was the author of the two goals, one in each half of a match, in which he had the great collaboration of vinicius for his team to achieve the twentieth champion trophy of this tournament nine years later.
Osasuna sold their defeat dearly in a game in which it goes tie in the second period by mediation of Lucas Torró on the brink of game time, but it wasn’t enough for the team to pamplon achieved its first title in history in his second appearance in a Cup final, after he also lost it eighteen years ago on his first occasion.
A final was presented between two historic clubs but with a very uneven curriculum, the spectacular of Real Madrid and another, that of Osasuna, which wanted to put in its showcase the first national title in its historybut in football the obligation and the illusion, in a single game, can have many variants.
To this was added, without wanting to admit it openly, that the formation coached by the Italian Carlo Ancelotti has next Tuesday at the Santiago Bernabéu a appointment marked on your calendar of each season, the first leg of one semi-final of the Champions Leagueon this occasion the one measuring the al Manchester City by Pep Guardiola.
With the departure of the French left-back Ferland Mendyalthough at the last minute that of the Utrera midfielder was added Daniel Ceballoswho left La Cartuja training with discomfort on Friday, the only clue to the significance of Tuesday’s game was what the Croatian Luke Modric he stayed on the bench from the start after suffering discomfort.
In Osasuna there was no kind of dilemma, it was the most important match after it lost its first Cup final against Betis in 2005 in the now-defunct Vicente Calderón, so the Jagoba Arrasatewith the announced casualties due to defense injury Nacho Vidal and the Serbian midfielder Darko Brasanacthey went with everything.
It was announced by Arrasate himself that one of the options before the powerful rival was to make one long matchbut he couldn’t get off to a worse start for his interests, because, in the first ball that Brazilian Vinícuis touched on the left wing, he went very well from Jon Moncaolaafter Ruben Pena on the bottom line and his pass was perfectly taken advantage of by his compatriot Rodrygowho finished at the minute and 48 seconds of the game.
Madrid, with a lot of muscle in the center of the field with the presence of the French Aurelien Tchouameniforced Osasuna to practice one joc directe and also with aerial balls in the area with which to assert the powerful play above the Pamplona team, especially the Croatian Ante Budimir.
Vinícius, who always stayed up top, was a nuisance for Moncayola, who sought the collaboration of Rubén Peña to mitigate the actions of the Brazilian and more so when the Osasanist right winger he saw the yellow card early in a play in front of the madridista, who in another great play was close to scoring the Frenchman Karim Benzema, although the goalkeeper Sergio Herrera prevented it.
The reply to the possible 2-0 came in the following play in an action in which the Moroccan Ez Abde got over first Éder Militaothen to the Belgian Thibaut Courtois But Dani Carvajal refused attentively before the ball sneaked in, although this showed that the match was back and forthof direct play and in which the Austrian central david praises he was again very close to scoring the second for his team in a direct free kick that ended with the ball deflected off the crossbar.
The game broke its rhythm in the last minutes of the first half due to a series of fouls that go warm to the footballers from both teams, although the break was reached with this 1-0 that remained as an unknown for the second, in which Osasuna did what it could not for a good part of the first, press alt.
This did not seem to matter too much to Real Madrid for, with the containment work of Toni Krooswaiting to find a quick recovery that would give Vinícius, Rodrygo and Benzema a chance, but this did not give him results and it was the opponent who did benefit from his tactical arrangement with a powerful shot from Lucas Torró that made it impossible for Courtois.
The tie, with something more than half an hour before regulation time, did react immediately to those of Ancelotti and history repeated itself, Vinícius marched down the bottom line, crossed, now Kroos participated, and Rodrygo finished.
It was the sentencebecause Real Madrid did not want to be surprised anymore despite the fact that Osasuna never gave up in search of a new tie that did not come.
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