In the minute 14 of party gave the first played controversy of the Classical of this Wednesday in Santiago Bernabéu. Vinicius Júnior, that without place to doubts was the more electrical and dynamic player in the attack of the Real Madrid during the first-half, was touched slightly by Nélson Semedo in the interior of the area and left fall on the lawn, looking for the penalti.
The balloon already had left him in the control, and the collegiate Sánchez Martínez, supported by the VAR, determined that the contact of Semedo was not sufficient to demolish to Vinicius, by what avoided to signal a maximum penalty that yes demanded the Real Madrid and, especially, the fans merengue. The whites tried like this mark terrain and convert the stadium in a pot to pressure, but the Barça and the referee's criterion held with firmness.
The two teams had gone out to the field with big intensity from the minute one, and this caused that they did not give too many offensive approaches to any of the two areas. The dispute kept especially in the centre of the field during big part of the first time, with the two teams contesting the possession of balloon and the command of the game.
To exception of the played of Vinicius with Semedo, the Real Madrid did not approach too many times more to the area of Ter Stegen. In another played punctual, the same Vinicius received a ball in the frontal of the area and tested the powerful shot, although it went out him above the crossbar. Regarding the Barça, in spite of some intentonas of 'pass of the death' of Jordi Alba, Dembélé and Luis Suárez, the group culé did not create a lot danger.
Arreón Of the Real Madrid at the end of the first time
It was missing something of precision in the last pass, and also test the shot from out of the area for the FC Barcelona. The two teams showed very intense in the pressure and very accurate -too- to the hour to try define the played. That 'order' facilitated the work of the labelings and of the defences, without that saw a very showy game on the lawn.
In the minute 36, this yes, a theft merengue in the centre of the field, after a bad exit of Gerard Hammered with the balloon, finish in a shot of Benzema that Ter Stegen stopped miraculously, saving to the FC Barcelona. The Catalan group came backwards in the last minutes of the first-half, and Vinicius went back to have another played clear in the 38', with a shot point-blank that it left above the goal culé.