Olympiakos 3-4 Real Madrid
Looking for their first win in Greece, Real Madrid faced Olympiakos in need of a reaction, and their star players showed. After Xabi Alonso spent the evening questions about his relationship with the dressing room, the victory will serve to tarnish the person, but not remove it.
The opening stanza of the play had none of that. Los Blancos came out sloppy and slack, allowing Jose Luis Mendilibar’s men to advance in midfield. A good exchange on the edge of the Real Madrid box gave Chiquinho space to hit the ball to the post, with the Real Madrid midfield looking miserable. Andriy Lunin, who can do little with the open, was forced to save another save before the real awakening.
It was a magical pass from Vinicius Junior that changed the game. The man who is often accused of not being able to warm to Alenso played a parabolic pass through the path of Kylia Mbappe and behind the Olimpiakos Defense from his part, which is MBAPPE finishing free. After two minutes, it was Arda Guler with an assist, cutting a cross between the MBAPE box to go up and down. Just seven minutes passed between MBAPPE’s first goal and a hat-trick. Hitting the Offside trap, Eduardo Camavinga was a simple light after a good pass this time, which MBAPE controlled and finished easily.
At this point, Los Blancos were 15 minutes into the half, and they looked hungry. Vinicius had no problem seeing the married effort get to the roof of the Net, and the previous treatment, he was denied a good strike from the left corner of the left box of the Olimpiyakos box. Mendilibar’s side just made a recovery by forcing Lunin into some good saves, with Mohamed El Kaabi losing Alvaro Carreras in the box, filling in for the injured Dean Huijsen.
Real Madrid avoided a surprise comeback
With the referee’s whistle blowing, the carousel of chances resumes, there is much to enjoy in neutrality. Vinicius also grabbed an almost miraculous effort after being substituted, and after six minutes, Konstantinos Tzolakis danced in his goal at the feet of Olympiakos. Among those chances, the Olympiacos had won him in this one, with Santiago Heli’s arling for the first time he fell for the first time to find Medhi Tareling above the real defense.
As it looked as though Olimpiakos might be back in it, MbAppe grabbed the fourth, courtesy of the unfaithful Vininicius. The installed panagotia of panaglias Retsos is on his way to the By-line, and mbAppe obeys his molding in the net in the six-year box.
That looked like it would last, but as the game entered the final stages, the head of Ayoub El Kaabi, who was not included in the box, found the back of the net. Olympiakos bounced back, and the crowd returned, with El Kaabi and Taremi shooting very carefully in the last 10 minutes. Real Madrid came full circle in the final stages, but managed to pull off a comeback.
Los Blancos managed to end their narrow win streak, and did so in their most exciting clash of the year. Vinicius and MbAppe, with his Quartet of goals, were at times uncontainable. That’s combined with the uncontrollable side of the control you do, and can inform you later. Although that was not a small part of the fact that they lost other players, Alonso will know very well that the performance does not have a problem to weaken the fullness that comes from him from the Madrid Press.
