"We have 11 final games we have to win," several words of Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane, summarizing the spirit in which the team returns to the League matches tonight by facing its guest Eibar.
This match will be the start of the 11-game marathon, which the Royal will play in five weeks in search of the title he wants since 2017.
To achieve this goal, the Madrid "Marca" newspaper mentioned 10 factors that it described as critical, and will determine whether or not the children of "Zizou" won the title next month.
1- Fix naive and unforgivable mistakes, and make sure not to miss important points.
2- The ground factor invested more strongly than the pre-stop period (the team did not lose but drew three times), and although the team will play outside the Santiago Bernabeu, which is undergoing a comprehensive rehabilitation, it must make sure to win all of its matches on the ground of the "Alfredo de Stefano" stadium.
3- The left side that Zidane prefers to be occupied by Brazilian Marcelo over Frenchman Fairland Mende, which means that Zidane must choose between the French defensive stiffness and the Brazilian offensive strength.
4- Focusing from the beginning of the match and not allowing the opponent to advance the result, because the matches will be played without an audience and this was not accustomed to the royal before.
5- The Welsh Gareth Bale - who has become one of the most hated players of the Real fans - must introduce himself again to the team, especially as he will relieve the pressure of the fans in the stands and will play with a clear mind and without distraction or booing throughout the game.
6- Zidan should use the bench bench in an intensive manner and give more playing minutes to the substitutes, especially since the law now allows five substitutions, and the figures reveal that Zizou are the least trained coaches in the Liga to use the substitutes only 76 times.
7- Adopting the principle of rotating players for fear of muscular injuries due to the long hiatus, and he must involve players such as Cider Militao, Luka Jovic, Mariano Diaz, James Rodriguez, Nacho and Ibrahim Diaz, and does not strain the main players, and he tries to invest the energies and capabilities of everyone so that he leaves the team the specter of injuries.
8- Spaniard Marco Asensio and Belgian Eden Hazard are the most beneficiaries of the stoppage period, and thus Zidane will have the fiery trio in addition to the French Karim Benzema, and this trio is supposed to change the equations and flip the scales in difficult matches.
9 - Brazilian Casimiro is among the most Royal players involved in the matches (2220 minutes and played essential in 25 games) took a long rest, and is ready to return to take his active role in the team midfield.
10 - Real Madrid suffers from the attack dilemma this season, as it scored only 49 goals versus 63 Barca (before yesterday's match), while its goals conceded 19 goals, 12 less than the Catalan team.