Real Madrid coach: Benzema replacement? We do not look at who Top goalscorer is.
The assistant coach of the Real Madrid football team explained the reason for the replacement of Karim Benzema in the final part of the team’s home defeat against Levante.
Real Madrid football team last night (Saturday, January 30) in a home match of the 21st week of the Spanish La Liga, lost 2-1 to its guest team Levante. In the absence of Zinedine Zidane, who is in quarantine due to Corona, his assistant David Betoni is in charge of the team, and he decided at the end of the game to bring out Karim Benzema (the Galatasaray’s top scorer this season) and send Mariano Diaz to the field. Surprised.
“We changed at the end of the game because we wanted Mariano to go down,” he told reporters. Here we do not care who Top goalscorer is for our substitutions. Our team has enough nuts, while Mariano also performs well in aerial combat and is a fighter.
The course of the game changed when the referee, with the help of VAR, dismissed the Real Madrid defender for a foul committed on Sergio Leon in the ninth minute of the game. But instead of sending in a center-back like Victor Ghost, Betoni opted to pull back Casemiro, the team’s defensive midfielder.
“At first we wanted to send a center-back, but we decided to pull Casemiro back,” he said. We did not want to lose a midfielder so that Victor could play, and the reason why Ghost did not play was not because of his age, as he is already in our starting lineup. That’s why we thought it would be better for Casemiro to step back and for Kroos and Modric to form a midfield pair.
Real Madrid is now 7 points behind Atletico Madrid, while Atletico has played two games less.
“Madrid still has faith in their team,” Betoni said of Real Madrid’s chances of winning the title in the current situation. In the second half, we started the press from the offensive line with a fired player, and this gave us courage. I know fans who love Real Madrid think the same.
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