With only two official matches played, proclaiming that Carlo Ancelotti has given Jude Bellingham the maximum responsibility that can be offered to a player within a football team may sound exaggerated, but since in this matter of opinions and analysis we are up to date Not to mention at the time or game by game, few will be able to argue that the football keys to the game of this Real Madrid are already the property of the English footballer. Nobody rules like him anymore. Nobody appears everywhere like him anymore… and nobody scores like him.

It seems evident that this 1-4-4-2 diamond formation that the Italian coach had to resort to when he was left without Benzema and no center forward came to use, is designed so that the new white ‘5’ can develop and develop all the physical, technical and tactical conditions that it carries within. Including the goal, for which he, precisely, he had not stood out until now. Perhaps also, because he had never had such freedom of movement and a zone of influence as wide as he currently has in the white team.

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Neither in Borussia nor in the English team, the goal never seemed to be his thing. Eight scored last year in the Bundesliga and in the previous one he stood in the same ones that he has now played in two games, for not remembering in his first season in Dortmund he scored only one. In this Madrid drawn to suit him, Bellingham even has a license to thrash. The rival area is his new travel companion when before it was almost always closer to his own. Now, with that triple jumper’s stride, he arrives without being there. The penalty spot is his reference point when the team deploys in attack. Part of an indeterminate position. As soon as he attacks the lane of ‘8’, like that of ’10’ or appropriates the hallmarks of those false ‘9’ that so many parties unblock.

In Almería, mechanized movements were already seen. Vinicius opened up to the left wing that he likes to occupy so much and Bellingham jumped inside to finishing positions. He scored the first two goals and passed the third to the Brazilian, even hoping that he would throw the wall, instead of inventing the warped shot that was executed. With so many spaces ahead and with his exuberant physical power, he breaks the opponent’s lines, being very difficult to detect by the opposing center-backs, whom he normally catches in static positions.

At the moment, and waiting for new chapters, this Madrid that had to be Mbappé’s, is already Rude’s Madrid and the feeling is that it is only the beginning. We will keep reporting.