Real Madrid 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur: 3 reasons why Los Blancos lost the match

Tottenham players celebrate Har
Tottenham players celebrate Harry Kane

#2 Madrid were ineffective in attack

Benzema did not have a shot on target in 90 minutes
Benzema did not have a shot on target in 90 minutes

To state that Real Madrid's attack was atrocious against Tottenham would be putting it mildly, as over the course of 90 minutes, they failed to do too much and rarely troubled either Hugo Lloris or Paul Gazzaniga in the Spurs goal.

To put this in context, at full-time, stats revealed that Real Madrid had 22 shots, and while this might look impressive, the harrowing fact of the matter is that just two of those were on target.

In essence, in 90 minutes, Tottenham's goalkeepers had to make just two saves and this is a rather poor output from a side boasting the services of Eden Hazard, Karim Benzema, Vinicius Jr, but to name a few.

Last season, Real Madrid suffered primarily because they did not score goals and this was the reason why so much was spent to bring in Eden Hazard and Luka Jovic to the Bernabeu, but the goals have not been flowing in pre-season as was expected.

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