MARCA asks Ancelotti about the “oppressed” player at Real Madrid: “Doesn’t he deserve more than that?”
The Spanish newspaper Marca asked Italian coach Carlo Ancelotti about one of the Real Madrid players and his lack of participation in recent matches despite doing his duty to the fullest when the team needed him.
The Spanish newspaper listed this player’s numbers, which exceeded most of the main players in the white team’s attack, and even explained that he is the only one who has scored goals in all the tournaments in which Real Madrid is participating this season (the Spanish League, the Champions League, the Spanish King’s Cup and the Spanish Super Cup).
Brahim’s run in the last breath of extra time to overtake Oblak and score Madrid’s fifth goal against Atleti into an empty net, which definitively sealed the Whites’ pass to the Super Cup final , is already part of the iconic images of the modern history of the Bernabéu club. The Malaga native’s disadvantage was enormous, but Brahim believed and persisted and overcame the distance that separated him from the ball to, with Oblak out of focus, score the goal into an empty net that sealed the victory in a brutal derby in Riyadh.
Wednesday’s goal in the Saudi capital was Brahim’s sixth goal in a season that began practically forgotten on the Madrid bench. Carlo Ancelotti was clear about his commitment to the Vinicius-Rodrygo-Bellingham trident , and the truth is that the performance of the three, especially the English one, silenced any hint of debate.
Brahim was barely required by the coach, but his response was exemplary. He never bowed his head and waited for his opportunity, which came against Las Palmas , after adding just a few minutes of garbage before that date, September 27 . Against the Canaries, the losses in attack made Brahim the starter, and the striker responded by making it 1-0 in a match that was getting tangled (he ended with only one more goal for the whites), and above all, showing that he could add to the game. Madrid attack.
Although he did not abandon his substitute status, Brahim was activated again in the League in mid-November , when Vinicius suffered his second muscle injury of the season. He made five starts almost in a row, with the exception of the match against Cádiz , and contributed two more goals ( Granada and Villarreal ) and an assist (Betis).
By then, Brahim had already made his debut in the Champions League, after adding only 9 minutes in the first three games. And again he had a direct impact on Madrid’s attack. Starts against Braga (goal) and Naples (assist) .
Brahim was also a starter in the whites’ debut in the Copa del Rey , on Three Kings’ Day against Arandina . In another duel that was uphill against a Second RFEF rival, Brahim capitalized on Madrid’s attack: he forced the 1-0 penalty (Joselu), scored the second and assisted Rodrygo for the 0-3, which cleared access from Madrid to the next round.
Despite this, the man from Malaga was once again a substitute in the Super Cup semi-final this Wednesday in Riyadh. A crazy game in which he entered the field in the 81st minute . Late, but still a lot of things happened. Like Carvajal ‘s goal that took the duel to extra time, in which Joselu , with the help of Savic, put Madrid ahead again. And finally, in extra time, Brahim’s tremendous sprint against Oblak to make it the Whites’ fifth.
In this way, Brahim becomes the only Real Madrid player to have scored in all four competitions: three in the League, one in the Champions League, one in the Copa del Rey and one in the Spanish Super Cup . In addition, he adds three assists (League, Champions League and Cup), bringing his offensive contributions to nine for Madrid 23-.24. And all this in just 824 minutes of play: one every 91 minutes . That is, one per game.
At this point, and with the data in hand, it is indisputable that the white club’s decision to recover Brahim from his successful loan to AC Milan (Italian champion and Champions League semi-finalist) has been a complete success. And also that Ancelotti has been able to rectify his initial plan, in which the Spaniard barely counted, until he became an important piece of the white attack. Carletto’s jack-of-all-trades is exceeding all expectations.
