The comeback of Real Madrid against Almeria at the Santiago Bernabeu was built from the bench. The poor performance in the first half, where the white team collapsed with a 0-2 scoreline, forced Carlo Ancelotti to take drastic measures to try to turn the situation around.Nacho, Mendy, and Rodrygo remained in the locker room to make way for Brahim Diaz, Joselu, and Fran Garcia. A freshness of legs was vital to clinching the three points in the 99th minute after a crazy game with VAR.With the team immersed in the comeback, the Italian coach once again made changes to bring in Dani Ceballos in the 70th minute and Eduardo Camavinga, in the 82nd minute, would be the last player to enter the field. In this scenario, controversy arose on social media with a video of Arda Guler’s reaction after realizing that he could no longer enter the field after Real Madrid completed the quota of substitutions. The Turkish midfielder, who spent practically the entire second half warming up, was forced to return to the bench and there, before sitting down, he threw the bib to the ground as he finished his walk.
The young pearl saw the match against the bottom team of La Liga as a good opportunity to continue adding minutes, but the way events unfolded in the match changed the plan. Ancelotti counts on him but wants to take it slow with the former Fenerbahce starlet, whose injuries have hindered him in the first part of the season. Italian coach was full of praise after the Turkish midfielder’s official debut in a Real Madrid shirt.”He played a good hour. He is not at the required physical level yet, but he has shown his quality. He showed it in the first half. I already said that we have to be patient with him.” Guler completed 59 hopeful minutes, confirming that the hype created in the preseason had its foundations, and the White Club only had to wait for the Spanish Super Cup semifinal against Atletico to see the young pearl in action again. His entry in the 112th minute coincided with the white comeback thanks to the goals of Joselu and Brahim Diaz. From there, the boy with the number 24 on his back disappeared from Ancelotti’s plans. Zero minutes in three games (Barcelona in the final, Atlético in the Cup, and Almería) that were close to reaching the boiling point in the morale of the young player.##NAJAVA_MECA_7838188##The youngster had left behind his physical problems, but his legs needed kilometres to fully recover physically. The tremendous arsenal of the white team in the midfield is the young player’s worst ‘enemy’… and the complexity of the matches, where Madrid had to come from behind in their last two games, did not allow the Turkish player to be seen more regularly. Against Las Palmas, with Madrid immersed in the comeback, Ancelotti wanted to reward Arda so that he could enjoy his league debut. He entered in the 81st minute and had a chance to score his first goal in white. He failed to control it, and the play went into limbo. A positive balance (he has played in three competitions) that must now reach the next level of the white team’s plan with its player.