A possible victory for Real Madrid over the mattress can benefit the Catalan team
MADRID – In the endless sequence of revenges in recent years, the League derby between Atletico Madrid and real Madrid in Metropolitano, which seeks the answer to a few questions, but above all proposes the most insistent question of all: Is there a league?
And that’s it Atletico Madrid, with 58 points, Boat With 56 and Real with 53, they are living their most frantic fight in recent years for the LaLiga title.
Ironically, the merengue victory would help the Blaugranas, who will remain two units away from the rojiblanco box. But, on the other hand, Madrid would arrive Barcelona. What a dilemma.
Right now, the points say yes. That now there are only five advantages between Athletic, the untouchable leader in the last 13 days and his followers reaffirm this hypothesis, but transfer it to what happens in Sunday’s derby, with a much more decisive appearance for real Madrid, visibly depressed.
Victory is almost an obligation for the white team, weakened in Atlético’s 1-1 run last month against Real Sociedad, but still alive in the title fight, while Zinedine Zidane he recovers Karim Benzema, his most overflowing football player and his best scorer, in the last two days.
For him Athletic, which will remain at the top, regardless of the score, is a test of endurance … And an opportunity: a victory would shoot his income on real Madrid up to eight points, which could be eleven if he wins his postponed duel with Athletic on Wednesday, but, in addition, it would be a blow of authority for his leadership, once he will be followed by Barcelona at the same distance.
No one has faded so much this season Diego Simeone just like Real Madrid in the first round (2-0), when the high pressure projected by Zidane devoured a team that until then seemed invincible in the League, but which reduced its football level, defensive solvency and fist after that defeat. In addition, they have not won any league derbies in five or nine games: four defeats and five draws from 0-1 in 2015-16.
Atlético needs goals Luis Suarez, stuck in the last four games in the 16 marked in his first 17 games or in the eleven he had scored in the nine games prior to the current drought. There is a certain dependence on the Uruguayan “9”. His was 42 percent of goals in the 2-0 derby.
You also need the best version of Jan Oblak, rediscovered undefeated after eight official matches and the defensive force that has always characterized him, no doubt due to the inappropriate vulnerability throughout the Simeone era: he scored eleven goals in the last nine games; ten of eight specific League duels.
On the contrary, the derby is presented as a new final for Real Madrid in a season with more than a moment at the edge of the abyss. From the dream of leadership to the obligation to win the leader. Although Zidane is committed to reducing the significance, ensuring that whatever happens will “always be alive in the League”, the distance of points in any result other than victory would be an impossible plate to lift, except for the unexpected collapse of the leader.
With important absences in defense Sergio Ramos Yes Dani Carvajal addition Eden Hazard and Mariano Díaz in attack, Zidane must decide the eleventh based on the drawing on which he bets. He arrives at the appointment after suffering a goring because he retouched and put Casemiro in the third center after the break against Real.
History is just numbers in the big games, but it favors real Madrid in the last matches against Atlético de Madrid in the League. Nine derbies without being defeated, five years after February 27, 2016. None of this matters for Zidane, who has repeated “playing football well” too many times. Only from there will your team be able to emerge victorious and regain options to defend the league crown.