Real Madrid as soon as they had their first goal did not allow the Atalanta defenders to rest for a bit. They increased the pressure, and made sure that they took away any hope of Atalanta scoring back. The trio of Vinicius, Bellingham and Mbappe will cause a lot of teams problems next season in the La Liga and in the champions league. Atalanta will be proud that they were at least able to not allow Real Madrid score early goals or even make an embarrassment to them. Atalanta will e in the champions league this season, they need to be prepared because this is the standard of games they will get.
Seriously they were fascinating in this match but I didn’t expect less from them though because Atalanta we’re definitely not the match for them. The goals weren’t coming at first and Madrid were really frustrated, we experienced the quadruple of Bellingham, Mbappe, Vinicius and Rodrigo with Tochuameni and valverde at the back, but one thing I notice is that this team will not flourish like that or play a free flowing football. Against bigger opponents or more technical opponents they will suffer simply because of lack of creativity.
Today Bellingham was deployed as a 10, this is a place I have always been critical of him not having that quality, he managed to do well there last season simply because of Toni Kroos been in the team, but without him they look lost there, I think against bigger opponents Ancelotti Should play either modric or the young Arder Guler there as a 10 and give Bellingham a no 8 role instead
That's true, but we have to realize that this is just the beginning of Ancelotti experiment with Mbappe in his squad, so there are many things that need to be polished. The match was very interesting, Atalanta managed to put up a fight even though they were not a worthy opponent for Real Madrid. Atalanta luck in the Europa League Final cannot be repeated today, congratulations to Real Madrid who have managed to add another European trophy to their collection, completing the previous Champions League trophy.
In my opinion, Ancelotti was very brave when he decided to play players with too many attacking types in one lineup, so at first glance they failed to create much creativity, fortunately they had a good finishing when the opportunity arose. Mbappe stole the public attention thanks to his goal today, it seems that the former PSG player is quite easy to adapt. Valverde dedicated his goal today to Toni Kroos, and said we will all miss him.