Real Madrid secured a ticket to the round of 16 of the Champions League

He learned to live, score, Real Madrid without Jude Bellingham, reserved due to his shoulder injury due to Carlo Ancelotti, who celebrated early qualifications for Round of 16 of the Champions League and the return of the strike against Sporting de Braga (3-0), in a match with Brahim’s defense that restored the lost confidence in the definition of Vinícius and Rodrygo.

Brahma changed the pace Real Madrid with that enthusiasm of a player who feels that he is being wronged. From a starter, from a star in Milan, to oblivion Carlo Ancelotti It’s been a few months that haven’t affected his football.

Starter, for the second time in the season, in an environment like that champions, He jumped up ready to show that he deserved more. They nullified the first, returning to Bellingham’s intuition to appear in the space where the playmaker scores, and he defined the goal with quality that momentarily silenced Madrid’s lack of shot.

AND Real Madrid which goes from playing with a positional midfielder like Tchouaméni, who never loses the zone, to the mobility of Camavinga. As crazy as it is transcendental. Just as effective at constant steals as he is at building plays in the rhythm of his wide stride. Far from the control that Kroos imposes, but compatible to increase the electricity of the game.

He willingly accepted it Sporting Braga with love for the ball. At first it didn’t sting him when he found the gift he had wasted. The inexplicable holding of Bruma by Lucas Vázquez, Carvajal’s starter in one of the six changes Ancelotti decided to make to change the face of his team. Lunan, the unexpected protagonist due to Kepa’s injury during the warm-up, avoided a goal with a great jump on Đala’s shot. Football rewards when you least expect it, and the Ukrainian goalkeeper showed that he is ready.

On the European stage, Vinícius reduces revolutions. It will be a competitionón, they will be opponents with whom he has no open accounts, he will suffer a minor provocation or the referees will not take his registration, but the truth is that the Brazilian focuses exclusively on the match. Initially unsuccessful in his attempts. Trying, he regained the decisive role he always had until the injury.

Away from the band, from his natural position, he missed the first clean chance due to poor control that preceded the foul on Niakate. That’s why Brahim’s goal was disallowed in the minutes of the exchange of blows. With Camaving in the savior role, diving to keep out a goal from Đalo’s shot, and Lucas decided to spoil the return to the team with a poorly awarded penalty that ended up beating Bruma again in the penalty area. If it wasn’t a penalty again, it seemed very similar.

And the one that brought clarity, after Valverde’s shot in the run to the outside pass ‘Vini’, that was Brahim that he was unwilling to let his long-awaited moment slip away. Mendy saw the action, who pulled the ball out to an unmarked Rodrygo. His backfield was the candy for the goal that broke the game in the 27th minute.

Once again to the offensive joy Sporting Braga It was weakened by its defensive fragility. He did not recover from the knock as Real Madrid took off the shackles, relieved of the pressure of so many goalless arrivals and almost no shots in the last game against Rayo. The setting was perfect for the performance of his Brazilian couple. Deadly on the counter attack. Punishing every mistake of the opponent with the ball.

Matheus avoided Rodryg’s first attempt, in the last bars of the first act, when he Vinicius He also forgave two against two. But both got a goal after Brahim forgave his double. From pillaging Camavinga to launching a counter-attack against a team that always liked to run. From Fede to Lucas and the center was controlled by Vinícius with his right before defining a cross with his left foot. So easy that on other occasions it seems impossible.

In three minutes, from 58 to 61, Real Madrid That put an end to the match and placement in the round of 16 in four rounds. With the undisputed plenary session. There was no better way to restore confidence to a striker than a goal of full quality.

Rodrygo signed him, after another transition that the Portuguese team failed to stop. Vinícius’ pass, a double gesture of quality to let the ball go behind his back and accept it with the inside of his boot before gently flicking the ball into the goalkeeper’s desperate exit.

. Technical document:

3 – Real Madrid: Kepa; Lucas Vázquez (Carvajal, m.74), Nacho, Rüdiger, Mendy (Fran García, m.84); Camavinga, Kroos, Fede Valverde (Nico Paz, m.77), Brahim (Modrić, m.74); Vinícius and Rodrygo (Joselu, d.77).

0 – Sporting de Braga: Matheus; Víctor Gómez (Mendes, m.62), José Fonte, Niakate, Cristian Borja; Carvalho, Joao Moutinho, Zalazar (Al Musrati, d.62); Bruma (Andre Horta, m.77), Ricardo Horta (Abel Ruiz, m.62) and Djalo (Banza, m.77).

Referee: Halil Umut (Turkey). Lucas Vázquez (4) was cautioned for Real Madrid.

Goals: 1-0, m.27: Brahim. 2-0, m.58: Vini. 3-0, m.61: Rodrygo.