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Toni Kroos en su último partido en el Santiago Bernabéu

MADRID, LOOSE BEFORE BETIS

A weak Real Madrid crashes against Betis in Kroos' farewell (0-0)

Published:25/05/2024 - 22:52h

Updated:25/05/2024 - 22:53h

Real Madrid said goodbye to LaLiga and the Santiago Bernabéu with a very gray game in which they could not get past a draw against Real Betis. The night featured an emotional farewell to Toni Kroos

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The Real Madrid has sacked of LaLiga and of Santiago Bernabéu after a historical domestic championship in which only they lost a party, against the Athletic of Madrid in the sixth day. They have said 'see you later' in a night in which the football, of some way, remained to a side and prevailed the recognition to Toni Kroos that has announced that it will withdraw when it finish the present campaign and has 'found' for the last time with the fans that have accompanied him in the last ten years.

It has been, besides, the last essay of the White House before the final of the Champions League of the next Saturday 1 June, in Wembley in front of the Borussia Dortmund (21:00 hours, 9:00 PM CEST). It was not surprise that Carlo Ancelotti bet by his XI of gala, with the players that aim to be headlines... Including to Thibaut Courtois and giving by closed the debate with Andriy Lunin. The Betis, that neither played at all, gave war from beginning to end.

The Madrid, to half gas against the Betis

Although it was an important presentation, because it supposed a general essay to confront to the Dortmund in a week, the Madrid went out a course underneath regarding previous parties. They did not print a lot of intensity and showed imprecise in the passes and movements, although they have showed that it is a team that, with very little, generates occasions. Carvajal Wasted a centre of Vinicius, with a shot diverted, and afterwards was Rodrygo with a shot to the long stick that did not find goal. They went back to plant with a double occasion in which 'Vini' did not attain to dribble to Vieites and the refuse hunted it a Mendy that shot to the arch, but Sokratis took out the balloon in the line.

The Betis kept very orderly and, little by little, began to find spaces until getting in trouble to the White House. In the straight final of the first part, after Vieites denied him the goal of heel to the '7', the ones of Pellegrino advanced 'momentáneamente' after Cardoso commanded the balloon to save after a refuse of Courtois. The VAR asked the review and finish desestimando the goal by an offside positional of Marc previous Rock. The béticos were able to extend the good feelings in the resumption and accumulated key occasions: Ayoze remained without finishing and good centre of Miranda, whereas the guardameta Belgian dressed of hero to divert the finish of Ayoze from the balcony of the area.

Courtois, star; the Madrid, playing with fire

The Madrid was waking up little by little and leaving backwards the passivity that had showed in the first compasses of the second half, but without being able to break the wall of Vieites. Jude Bellingham was the first in encouraging with a far shot that detained to two times the guardameta bético. The visitors answered with a contragolpe that finish Miranda with a shot crossed that went back to show the most decisive version of a Courtois that signed a paradón. It did not happen a lot when the Betis annotated his second so much, also cancelled, already with Kepa in the arch. Willian José pushed the balloon, in position irreglamentaria, after a centrochut of Miranda.

Cardoso Warning with a head butt that left high and afterwards was Vinicius the one who tested luck with a strike from the medialuna, but did not find goal. Kroos Was the following with finish, very bitten, from the frontal that finish in the gloves of Vieites, although it did not cost by offside.

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