• Zidane. "The injuries really bother me"
  • Injuries: the Dupont method, under the magnifying glass

In the press conferences of Zinedine Zidane , the last two shifts are always for French media, in deference to the coach's country. This way they can count on two audio cuts in their language. In the previous stage of the coach on the bench, the Spanish press tended to disconnect from that patriotic wink, being almost always issues already addressed in the cascade of previous questions. Now, however, it is worth listening carefully until the end, simultaneous translation by. Between that the Castilian of Marseille was somewhat rusty in his months outside the club (all his private life is in French, as well as his group of collaborators in the team) and that they do not stop spitting spiny matters, sometimes ZZ sweats quite a bit into the microphone and others directly skates, as in that precipitous farewell to Bale in the preseason: "The sooner you leave, the better for everyone."

This Tuesday he waited until the closing of his press conference to expand on the matter that is causing more damage to Real Madrid: the streak of injuries (13 already, in 10 different players). One who repeats is the last to fall, Ferland Mendy, highlighted on Sunday in the Pizjuán, in that improved defensive version of the whites. His loss is an important task for Zidane, with Marcelo still waiting to recover completely. This Wednesday before Osasuna, I may place Nacho or Militao on the left side. "We played 60 games, when I was 45 in my time. Now it's like two seasons in one," he reflected with the journalists in his country, looking at the very busy calendar.

Before ZZ had saved Grégory Dupont , the new physical trainer signed to replace Antonio Pintus and with the main objective of reducing the physical problems that so much punished the course passed to the whites. A mission failed at the moment. "The injuries really bother me ... but the people who work here are good," he said.

Also in his language he returned to a subject that does seem to have hurt him, the freedom granted to the staff after losing in Paris . «People criticized him to give the players a rest day but it's not because we won or lost. There is a planning behind. We have seven games in 21 days and rest is given because it is planned, because players face many minutes and trips. Then, there may be injuries. A player is not a machine, he is a person ».

Modric, like James?

From one of them, Luka Modric, the club expects him to kindly give up traveling with his team within two weeks, when he will be summoned. By then I should be high, but too tender yet. Playing precisely with Croatia was injured, in the last international break. James, that time, in the process of recovery, said no to Colombia.

And between one thing and another appears a newly promoted and undefeated Osasuna in the League. Dangerous for Madrid, tempted to lower revolutions after winning in Seville . In the near memory, there are rivals of the same profile that have scared the Bernabéu. Girona , for example, in February. "You have to play the whole game as a team," asks Zidane, who announces rotations.

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