Dudek, Arbeloa, Metzelder, Albiol, Drenthe, Barn, Diarra, Guti, Van der Vaart, Raul and Benzema. Later, Gago, Marcelo and Van Nistelrooy. 14 names for the shame, 14 soccer players who will happen deservedly to the black history of the Madrid, split head open in a field of Second B, one of those nights that can mark the trajectory of a project. And it was not in the Camp Nou or San Siro, but in a place moved away of fanfarria, in the suburbs of the capital, with 4,000 people who recently had booed to the Neighbourhood or the Villanovense.
One hardly staggers Madrid two months after taking the season, crack his schemes, mainly because in the grass nobody is bothered to play soccer. It was let know from the made goals ones before rivals of second row, but never improvement noticed. Those warnings, that nobody seemed to take in serious, expressed until the satiety the extraordinary Alcorcón, from Juanma in portería to Borja in the point of the spear. In the theater box, Florentino and Valdano rubbed the eyes. In the press room, almost without voice, Pellegrini “shame” stammered the word.
In the grass, there were 11 types of yellow that destroyed to Madrid, by intensity, by rapidity, by collective implication. Everything what they had warned Tenerife, Xerez, Valladolid in the Bernabéu carried out the team to it of Juan Antonio Anquela, brave, vertical, decisive. In both first three minutes córners threw and tried twice to Dudek from long distance. Madrid despised the danger and nor promised to be with finding out. They tightened to him in all the trenches and it did not remove nor tirachinas.
At Guti it still arrived later that in the training of Sunday. It was disturbed quickly and it been able to see the red one, so in the rest they decided to do without his services. And apparently, above one got upset. Drenthe gave all the left flank, Metzelder was a heavy load and only Van der Vaart promised to be with a honesty kidnapping.
Madrid suffered on the field and to the quarter of hour, Borja placed 1-0. It received from Blackberry in doubtful situation, but it maneuvered at will in the area and it crossed zurdazo to the network. She was only one shows than one came. Only five minutes later Blackberry accelerated by the freeway of Drenthe and Arbeloa arrived inopportunely to put it in the square, without wanting, that yes.
The Alcorcón, to which they allowed everything him, played pleasing. A small one with pride, sixth in its group of Second B, that came to lose before the Athletic B and with four very important losses. Close a modest one, with Ruben Sanz to the controls, Ernesto to the race and Borja always with the goal between eyebrow and eyebrow. Béjar shaked one's head half an hour to the wood to and only a rat later, the same Ernesto defined with extreme calm before Dudek, perhaps because nobody prevented to him in 10 meters to the round one.
It is this that, with or without quarrel with Pellegrini, Guti remained in the bench and Gago entered the second part. But nothing changed to the south of the capital, only the quarter of Borja and another center of Nagore from the right that, already in line of goal, did not finish off Cascón by centimeters. The yellows did not move backwards in their effort, arrived at all the aid, crammed down a heartbroken rival, without resources.
Some ball deslabazado in the area finished in the power of Benzema, that ran into one and three times with the inspiration of Juanma. They go Nistelrooy it replaced Raul and it proved the flavor of the wood after one of its classic movements. The goal did not arrive and it was not expected to him either. Madrid was dying without doing noise, lost in the dark, invoking a hypothetical overcome spirit of for the return. And imporaante, in these times of sinking, some have almost determined makes lack a new guide, a new light.
