Madrid is preparing to say goodbye to the year, in the absence of the visit to Athletic, with a balance of only two penalties in favour: one last season and another in the current one.
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Madrid will remember this year as the one with the penalties that were not whistled. Real Madrid’s penalties in 2021 fit into a gif, those animated images of about five or six seconds that in the coming days will invade your phone in the form of a Christmas greeting. In 40 games, and in the absence of playing the meeting this Wednesday in San Mamés, the white team closes the calendar year with only two penalties in favour, the worst figure, along with Elche, of the 17 teams that have been all in 2021 in the First Division Division. On the other side of the coin, Madrid has been awarded three penalties. The same as Barça, which, however, has enjoyed eight penalties in favour. “It seems strange to me, but this is what happened in 2021. Hopefully, in 2022 we can have more luck,” Ancelotti said yesterday in the press room.
Real Madrid needs more praise this year
To find the last penalty awarded to Madrid in the League, you have to go back to September 12. With the game resolved, Benzema completed his hat-trick scoring the final 5-2 in the 87th minute after a foul by Denis Suárez against Vinicius in the area that Sánchez Martínez sanctioned. The other penalty in favour of the year was last season, in the visit to Cadiz on April 21. It was marked by Benzema to open the account (0-3 final) after Mateu went to the monitor (De Burgos Bengoetxea was in the VAR) to review a demolition of Iza to Vinicius. Real Madrid will try best at San Mames! It will be interesting to see the match.