Real Madrid, in the round of 16 after drawing in the last breath against Shakhtar

The real Madrid He is about to add the first defeat of the season where he did not expect it and at the worst moment, before the Clásico. White draws the Warsaw match shaker thanks to a desperate goal from Rudiger in the 95th minute it was 1-1. A point that serves the whites to qualify for the round of 16 of the Champions League. A goal in the last breath of the game that made up for a bad game for the Whites before Barcelona were welcomed at the Bernabéu.

The real Madrid He went out on the pitch with his mind set on the Clásico and almost assumed that sooner or later, he would win the Sakhtar. A sesteo dynamics to which he added danger, the only one unable to do so. The Belgian is back to being the starter and playing to end the bad feelings he gave every time he played. Hazard has been the big disappointment of a Real Madrid team that did little or nothing in the first half. If a week ago, the whites squeezed the ball to drown Shakhtar, in Warsaw that was a chimera. The whites. playing at a very slow pace and without squeezing the Ukrainians in the slightest, they let the minutes go by hoping that Benzema or Rodrygo they will score Both tried, as did Valverde, but they ran over Shakhtar’s goalkeeper.

The Ukrainian team, who should be praised for always wanting to get the ball out from the back, tried to find the goal, but went into the break without finishing between the three posts. In this panorama, the normal thing reached the break and it happened. A 0-0 that did justice to what was seen in a first action to forget.

Real Madrid ended up in the thick of things and started, but suddenly woke up 1-0 Zubkov in the 46th minute. With his first shot between the three posts, the Shakhtar player took advantage of the passivity of Mendy when defending that action. That goal led Ancelotti to decide that seeing his team walking around the field was over. He put it on the field Modric and Vinicius and off went Tchouaméni and Hazard, singled out for their poor play.

Real Madrid took a step forward and went to Shakhtar, staying true to their style of play and looking to go 2-0 on the counterattack. had it I brought it in the 65th minute, but his shot hit the crossbar. Ancelotti, furious with what is happening on the pitch, put Alaba, Marco Asensio and Camavinga to try to turn a match closer to 2-0 than 1-1. Despite the changes, the white team still didn’t find the door and didn’t improve their game much. And he did it not on his own merits, but also because of Shakhtar who did not lose heart and, moreover, saw their weaknesses, they easily reached the Lunin area.

The minutes passed and weighed like a slab for Real Madrid who saw how the specter of the first defeat of the season was becoming more real. The Whites were tired of centering balls in Shakhtar’s area, but without any success. Until the 95th minute when in the last play of the game, Cross put a center done Rudiger, who became a center forward, to make it 1-1. An action in which the German central played his physicality and, in fact, did not finish the game. In the end, Real Madrid left Warsaw with the round of 16 in their pocket, but not leaving a good image before the Clásico.