The official UEFA Champions League account on X, the old Twitter, thought it was a good idea to promote the match between RB Leipzig and Real Madrid with a photo of Ancelotti raising his eyebrow. That prominence of his, almost mythological, that would connect with pop culture and the also famous eyebrow of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero if the former president of the Government were not so culé. Or so socialist, you never know, because one suspects that there are still some symbolic tolls through which a part of Real Madrid fans are unable to navigate.
The thing is, it seemed like a good idea to me too. In the end, it was about Ancelotti and his very personal eyebrow, two of the great myths of the modern European Cup and also of the old one, since as a footballer the Italian left his mark in that immortal Milan that changed football forever without removing a single hair. But then came minute 2 of the game: a corner was thrown by the Germans, Lunin cleared it with his fists and Schlager’s subsequent shot ended up on the head of Benjamin Sesko, who scored a goal to the public ridicule of Rodrygo, who was so clueless that he ended up making a good position. preview of the Slovenian footballer.
The referee, at the request of the linesman, pointed out Sesko’s non-existent offside and the VOR room referee upheld the decision when observing another different offside, in this case positional and by Henrichs, for pushing the Madrid goalkeeper. betrayal and intervene, therefore, in the play. “Us in the 2nd minute of the match,” they published almost immediately from the official RB Leipzig account with acknowledgment of receipt of the UCL publication about Carlo Ancelotti and his eyebrow, in addition to the corresponding emoticon. Thus began a new and bitter arbitration controversy between the most militant Real Madrid fans and their nemesis: anti-Madrid fans.
If you ask me, I prefer to align myself with anti-Madridism for a mere matter of coherence: it’s not like my life is spent looking for the ruin of Real Madrid, but I like to see them stumble from time to time, it seems that I still find certain satisfaction and relaxation in it. The controversy, in this case, had to do with Henrichs’ supposed push to Lunin, hence the networks were immediately filled with alternative images that demonstrated such a thing (in this the Madrid Internet user has no rival: he is disciplined, proud and tireless like few others, almost at the same level as Podemos’s praetorian guard). “Clear push!” millions of them cried to the heavens of the networks and almost in unison, a universal target chorus of damages and losses.
There began the challenge of defining what is a push and what is not, beyond what the regulations or the dictionary say. What between Benzema and Donnarumma, for example: it is not a push. The thing from Carvajal to Lewandowski, neither. And what about Savic with Bellingham? There, yes: clear push. Like that of Henrichs to Lunin, who if he had left Germany with some mischief and a collar could have even requested a discharge. “We should have given the goal,” Toni Kroos acknowledged at the end of the match and after seeing the images on television. If anyone considers that the German needs an explanation on the subject, they should send him to Barcelona, which is where the most expensive push in history is located – still in the instruction phase –: more than seven million euros and the eyebrows of half the world. arched like plates.
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