Shakhtar vs Real Madrid Cup soccer results 02/12/2020

Final: Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Real Madrid
Scored: Dentinho (57); Solomon (82)

This season, it is increasingly difficult to predict the results of Real Madrid matches. They just beat Barça 3-1 in the Super Classic match, the Whites immediately drew 2-2 at Gladbach. After that stumble in the European arena, he won the next 2 games (against Huesca and Inter Milan), before losing to Valencia … 1-4 and drawing 1-1 at Villarreal.

More recently, the Madrid team continued to beat Inter Milan 2-0 in the opponent’s lair with a 1-2 loss at home to Alavés in La Liga.

Madridistas themselves are unable to explain the “up, then down” style, the other way around. Actually, it is not difficult to find the cause of this erratic condition. It is the traumatic storm that has caused 17 players on Real Madrid’s payroll to stop playing just over two months ago.

However, coach Zidane sees this problem from a deeper perspective: the mindset of the game. According to the French strategist, when the players are forced to fight for a specific goal, they will be themselves. The Madrilenians played excellently in the last 11 games of La Liga last season and were later crowned spectacularly.

This season, they were forced to be in the best fighting state in the El Clásico match with Barça or two meetings with Inter Milan (both won), but they played poorly and the consequence was inevitable. News against Cádiz, Valencia, Alavés and Shakhtar himself in the opening match of the group stage of the Champions League this season.

All of those defeats played out on the same stage: Real Madrid beat the time to control the ball but … didn’t know what to do next, only to pay the price for the opponent’s quick counterattacks. principal. For example, in the first leg with Shakhtar, Los Blancos retained the ball 57%, took 12 shots, but only scored 2 goals. Meanwhile, the representative of Ukraine only made a total of 6 shots and scored 3 goals.

In this second leg, of course, Real Madrid’s personnel change is inevitable, especially after a bad defeat against Alavés on the LaLiga pitch. Specifically, coach Zidane has 4 adjustments on the starting list compared to the defeat a few days ago.

Marcelo, Casemiro, Mariano Díaz were pushed onto the bench and Eden Hazard was absent due to injury. Number one striker Karim Benzema struck again after a brief period of injury. Martín Odegaard is present in the middle line to enhance his creativity while Ferland Mendy is younger and more stable than the old Marcelo (34 years old).

Unsurprisingly, in tough times, Real Madrid’s pride and true class will be shown. Although he had to be invited, the biggest club in C1 / Champions League history entered very well. At 5 minutes into the game, Benzema drove the ball down the left and then reached in for Marco Asensio to move his foot to reach the goal, but the ball bounced off the post.

In the 11th minute, Modric let Benzema escape and took a one-touch shot, the ball went quite tight, but couldn’t make it difficult for goalkeeper Trubin. A few minutes later, Moraes thought he was seriously injured after a strong block by Varane (he got a yellow card) when he had to leave the field by tram, but in the end the Brazilian of Brazilian origin was able to continue playing.

However, Moraes didn’t try much more and had to leave the field in the 25th minute. Let’s remember that Junior Moraes is Shakhtar’s top scorer with a stable scoring performance (with 26 goals in the last two seasons). In the second half of the first part, everything was still completely under the control of the Spanish Royal.

Mind you, with overwhelming dominance, Real Madrid is not lacking in the intimidation phase of the home team’s goal, but if a shot is fired, it’s not dangerous enough to beat goalkeeper Trubin. Before the break, the playing conditions became extremely harsh, especially for the guests when the snow fell on the NSK Olimpijskyj Stadium.

At the beginning of the second half, captain Benzema had a series of gentle drives before hitting the 5m50 area and Nacho hit his head high but the ball came out imprecise. Shakhtar Donetsk responded with Taison’s confident penetration in 16m50 despite being closely followed by Varane and in the end, the Brazilian finished off his left foot but failed to beat Courtois.

In short, the game also has a goal, but the host is the team that overcomes the deadlock. In the 57th minute, Kovalenko put the ball into the Real Madrid penalty area and Ferland Mendy broke the ball in Varane’s indifference (he let the ball pass in front of him without reacting). Dentinho seized his opportunity very quickly when he rushed in to deliver the final blow to Courtois.

Being led the table, the Spanish Royal was forced to quickly put the squad up and tried to attack to find a goal. But the advantage of leading the table increases the spirit and confidence of the home team, helping them to continue to resist effectively the pressure of the powerful visiting team.

In the 77th minute, in full confusion, coach Zidane substituted three positions in attack. Even Benzema, who played aggressively and quite effectively, was unable to stay on the field. However, when Real Madrid were a bit prosperous, they had to receive the second goal. Solomon (who scored in the first leg) kicked the ball out from midfield, crossed the 16m50 line and launched a dangerous shot, knocking it down. Courtois.

The rest of the time, Real Madrid only knew how to play desperately and could not recover any faces, so they continued to hug Shakhtar Donetsk.

TEAM

Shakhtar Donetsk XI (4-2-3-1): Anatolii Trubin; Dodo, Vitao, Valerii Bondar, Mykola Matvyenko; Viktor Kovalenko (Alan Patrick 85 ‘), Taras Stepanenko; Mateus Tete, Marlos Bonfim (Maycon 73 ‘), Taison (Solomon 74’); Moraes (Dentinho 25 ‘, Fernando 85’).

Real Madrid XI (4-2-3-1): Thibaut Courtois; Lucas Vázquez, Nacho, Raphael Varane, Ferland Mendy; Luka Modric, Toni Kroos; Rodrygo (Vinicius 77 ‘), Martin Odegaard (Isco 77’), Marco Asensio; Karim Benzema (Mariano Díaz 77 ‘).