A Brahim trick gives Madrid victory in the Teresa Herrera

The poster for the 81st edition of the Teresa Herrera, the dean summer trophy in Spanish football, was so suggestive with the visit of Real Madrid to Deportivo that the entire first half in Riazor turned out to be a disappointment until in stoppage time Brahim showed off one of his wonderful tricks. The Spanish-Moroccan winger received a long ball in the center of the field that Lunin had thrown to him with his hand, tamed it as if he had a padded chest under Soriano's pressure, pushed it with his knee and defined with his right foot against Leo Román, the goalkeeper who has just signed a great season at Mallorca and whom the Coruña club signed this summer in his return to First Division after spending eight years in the catacombs for no more and no less than nine million euros.

Brahim's action gave Madrid the win to lift the gigantic trophy with the shape of the iconic Tower of Hercules of the city of A Coruña for the tenth time and lit up a first half that until then had been almost soporific due to the circulation rhythm displayed by José Mourinho's team, almost incapable of tickling the well-armoured group of Antonio Hidalgo, a compact block that also knows how to hide the ball when it passes through the feet of Soriano and Amatucci.