La Euro Cup that during these weeks is being played in Germany is confirming the football strength of the Real Madrid, crowned a little over a month ago as the best team on the Old Continent. The victory in the final of Wembley against Borussia Dortmund put the focus on the 12 Madrid players selected to participate in the Euro, which shortly after would be 13 after the official announcement of Kylian’s arrival Mbappé to the white club.
The truth is that Madrid’s internationals are leaving the club’s flag high on German soil. In fact, The Madrid team is the club with the most players in the quarterfinals, a total of 11, ahead of Barcelona, Bayern, City and PSG, who have nine.
Thus, Madrid fans have only had to regret two early eliminations to date, in both cases painful. Especially that of a Luka Modric who should be facing his last games with the Croatian national team, although with the infinite motor of the 10 you never know. He also stung Real Madrid fans with Andriy’s even more hasty goodbye. The moonwho in fact only played one game, the first in Ukraine, which his team lost to Romania after two notable errors by the goalkeeper, key to Madrid’s successful season no matter how Courtois was the starter in the European Cup final.
Only good news has come from the rest of the white internationals, starting with the Spanish, led by Dani Carvajal who has exported his excellent season at the Bernabéu club to the national team. Untouchable as Spain’s right back and, also, a scorer against Croatia, he is more of a protagonist than Joselu y Nacho, two players who will not continue in white next season, seduced by the spell of the Far East. Fixed in Germany, rival of Spain on Friday, Kroosanother that does not follow, and a Rüdiger who has even had the luxury of winning an MVP.
Jude’s highlight
The highlight of a Madrid player so far in the Euro has been, without a doubt, Jude’s overhead kick. Bellingham against Slovakia. A bit of gold not only for his execution, but because he saved the Three Lions from an elimination that seemed certain. It was the second goal of Madrid’s 5 in the tournament, without a doubt the best news in Germany from Southgate’s disappointing England.
Bellingham goal (1-1) in England 2-1 Slovakia
France is the team with the most Madrid players in its squad, a total of four, with the trick of including Kylian in the group Mbappé. The former PSG player has monopolized the covers for issues that are more non-sports than football, especially that broken nose that he suffered in the first match of the tournament, against Austria. However, the Parisian striker has also claimed the spotlight on the pitch, the only French attacker who has lived up to his reputation, generating an own goal and a penalty target, one of the few offensive fruits of the squad of Deschampsa coach who, like his English colleague, collects criticism until these stages of the tournament.
In a gray France it is shining too Tchouaméni, who arrived at the Euro injured (in fact he was absent from the Champions League final), but who, in the round of 16 match against Belgium, was surely the best of Les Bleus. A selection in which Camavinga y Mendy They continue to clash with the criteria of their coach, who prefers other alternatives ahead of two players who have clearly proven to be capable of assuming responsibilities at the highest level.
Burning light
The last Madrid player to get on the quarterfinals bandwagon was Arda Guler, who gave a performance against Austria playing as a false ‘9’, a position in which a priori he should not have shone at that level. But the Turk gave a performance playing with his back turned, unloading and playing first. Although where he stood out above all was in the dead ball, setting to music several corner kicks that destroyed the Central European defense. From two balls that came from Arda’s boots came the goals of Demiral that gave the Ottomans a place in the quarterfinals and that maintain Gülermania at its highest in Turkey, a country in which football is experienced with an intensity and passion that surpasses all limits.
