The Champions League quarter-final draw pits Real Madrid in the face of a tough and stubborn opponent, Liverpool, and during the week of the quarter-final of the continental competition, the "royal" will face Barcelona in the "Clasico" of the League.
On the sixth of next month, the Real will host the "Lever" in Madrid, then it will receive Al Barça on the tenth of the same month, before leaving for Liverpool to face the "Reds" on the 14th of it.
In the season of fluctuating results for Zinedine Zidane's children, the latter needs his team to be at the top of its level to skip the big matches, or what Zizou used to call "finals".
And it seems that Real and its coach are accustomed to walking on the "edge of the abyss" this season. After a poor performance in the Champions League Groups League last December and he had a "mountain" to climb, he returned to his favorite tournament and topped the second group.
After two losses against Alaves in the League, and choosing Donetsk in the Champions League, the team emerged from the womb of suffering and overcame its fears, defeating Sevilla, Shakhtar, Atlético de Madrid and Athletic Bilbao in 10 days, and returned to competition in the League and European Championships.
The difficult week that the Real is going through is also not easy for the "Liverpool" who ranks sixth in the Premier League, and during the eight days in which he faces the Real twice, the "Liverpool" collides in the Premier League with the brilliant Aston Villa this season, in an important match in order to compete for the qualifying positions. For the Champions League next season.
Before the crucial week, the Real Madrid face Celta Vigo and Eibar, then comes the international period in which the teams play 3 matches, and that is why Zidane has to pray so that new players do not enter the team's clinic.
In the event that Real Madrid reach the first leg of the quarter-finals with a full squad and no new players are injured in its squad, Zidane will be confused about it. Will he adopt the principle of "player rotation" or will he play with the same squad in the three matches?
And the last time Real Madrid faced Barcelona between the home and away matches of the Champions League, was the 2018-2019 season, as "Clasico" lost the cup by 3-0 and also the "Clasico" league with a clean goal.
He was also defeated by Ajax in the "Bernabeu" 1-4, in a match in which Sergio Ramos, Real's captain, did not participate.