Real Madrid got rid of Elche with solvency at the Bernabeu and cut the distance that Barcelona leads to eight points. Elche, who had only won one game so far in the league and march bottom, very low in the table, had nothing to say, surpassed from start to finish. After half an hour he already had the game lost despite the fact that Pablo Machín did not raise any bolt.
The novelty in Madrid was the midfield that Ancelotti presented, with Valverde, Camavinga and Ceballos, a sign of the future. Modric kept the bench and Kroos was not there, suffering from gastroenteritis. Camavinga’s presence there suggests that the experiment of putting him on the wing is over. Against Al Hilal it was a strainer.
The winger position went to Nacho and the victim of Camavinga being in midfield was Tchouaméni, one of the footballers who has come back worse from the World Cup in Qatar. Camavinga, in his natural site, was one of the most prominent.
It was the return to the League, but not for Vinícius, out of the eleven due to suspension. Without the Brazilian there was no noise that always accompanies him and Madrid had a placid night, the quietest of the season, with Rodrygo on the far left instead of his compatriot.
The duel did not have any emotion because it was decided very soon. After eight minutes Asensio took a personal move out of his hat in which he left Lisandro Magallán lying and adjusted a shot that went past Edgar Badía to the post.
Elche’s suffering had just begun. The energy with which Madrid deployed was unstoppable for the people of Elche, who dedicated the entire game to nothing more than covering the leaks.
Rodrygo and Benzema missed good chances but before the break Madrid had already put the land in the middle with two clear penalties: the first at half an hour by the hands of the Chilean Enzo Roco and the second in the 44th minute due to Diego González’s demolition of Rodrygo , The latter was protested by Elche. Both were thrown by Benzema and he marked them with precision. Madrid had just missed two penalties through Asensio and Modric.
The second part began with Madrid focused on the rival. Badía would soon become the hero of his people. Before the first ten minutes he had taken two goal balls from Rodrygo and saved a good shot from Benzema.
Machín made a triple substitution, substituting the entire midfield, but the chances continued in the visiting area. Asensio was able to score with a volley, but was again prevented by a grown Badía. With twenty minutes to go Ancelotti changed to three in turn, and Modric, Tchouaméni and Odriozola entered and Ceballos, Valverde and Carvajal left. Then Mariano came on for Benzema. So much insisting had a prize for Modric, who scored the fourth.
Throughout the match, the young supporters of the Santiago Bernabeu insistently chanted “Corruption in the Federation”, in reference to the payments by FC Barcelona to the vice president of the Technical Committee of Referees.
