Immediate Reaction: Elche 1 - 1 Real Madrid
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Elche 1 - 1
(Chaves; Modric). Here’s our quick reaction. Still to come: Player ratings, post-game podcast, post-game quotes, and plenty more.
Real Madrid’s last game of the calendar year encompassed some of the trends that arose for the team in 2020. One trend in particular that stood out: The struggles of penetrating an organized low block.
Tonight, Elche, whose head manager Jorge Almiron stayed home due to testing positive for coronavirus, were managed by assistant Jesus Muñoz, and stayed compact defensively, while hoping to create danger on the counter-attack from Fidel Chaves, Lucas Boye, and Emiliano Rigoni. Fidel had some success against Lucas Vazquez and Dani Carvajal, though nothing major. Rigoni exploited the space left behind by Marcelo on the opposite side, and Boye was Elche’s main offensive lynchpin.