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Original Title: Varane on playing alongside Bale, Ronaldo, Modric, Ramos, Marcelo, etc: “You feel like you’re a gladiator, or a soldier on a mission. We were a very instinctive team. That’s why I consider it an art. It’s not robotic. There are always surprises. An action that worked one time may not work again.”
More by Varane, “Everyone knew exactly what they had to do. Sometimes we pressed, sometimes we didn’t, and in fact nobody gave a signal. There were matches that for the first 30 minutes you sensed things weren’t going well, we were blocked and the space was elsewhere. We changed without even talking.”
“When you started the match, you didn’t know exactly how you were going to play. We didn’t just play or press one way. Sometimes we attacked even when we didn’t expect to, but we saw an opening and went for it.”