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Gareth Bale did not seem to be very worried about the Bernabéu pitos last Saturday. Follow-up videos aired on a hangover Monday show him smiling on the bench, even joking with his classmates about the shower that awaited him. His free afternoon on Sunday was spent at the Santander Bank golf course and on Monday morning he was still comfortable in Valdebebas , in the pre-duel training against PSG.

That capacity of isolation could take advantage of Zinedine Zidane before the Parisians, where he hopes that the noise of the stadium towards the Welshman will loosen. It is another audience, another rival and another atmosphere, with the qualification for the knockout stages of the Champions League. The coach considers pulling the experience (and fortune) of the striker in the maximum competition to give him the opportunity to reconcile with the fan on the fast track. A good performance would dissolve the problems. In return, yes, the technician needs Bale to look the same towards the goal of Keylor Navas behind him. There is likely to circulate Neymar , a football player always on in Chamartín. Do not forget the first 45 minutes he signed in February 2018, in that tie that ended up winning Real Madrid.

Tonight's appointment is presented as an interesting tactical pulse between two coaches under pressure. Zidane's demands are urgent, as he must still seal the pass to the next round. They would get theirs in the case of winning or even tripping, provided the Bruges did not pass the tie in the field of Galatasaray . On the part of Tuchel , the German who speaks French on the PSG bench, his obligations appear in the long term, also in the Champions League.

Tuchel's unknowns

After last year's fiasco, eliminated in eighths by surprise in Paris by Manchester United, the European Cup is an obsession for the entity that sports the two most expensive signings in history. Without Neymar and Mbappé , the PSG took Madrid ahead in September thanks to its more choral version, with Di María multiplying in the core and the attack. Today the Argentine is threatened by Cavani, ready to rejoin the offensive trident.

Both the former Madrid player, as the Brazilian star and Mbappé himself handle high doses of motivation to show off at the Bernabéu. Opposite will be the PSG to a Madrid very different from the party of the Park of the Princes. «It will be totally different. There are differences like we play in Madrid, in the most difficult stadium in all of Europe. Sergio Ramos will play, who is the captain and leader of Real Madrid, which is now a different team and has great results. They are in a great state of form and it is very difficult to play against them, but we have Neymar and Mbappé ready, we are a balanced and dangerous team, ”said Tuchel, with as many unknowns in his eleven as Zidane.

The general level rise of the white team forces the French to make difficult decisions. In addition to choosing between the Bale category or Rodrygo's orderly talent, you will have to fine-tune the midfield. If he continues with his 4-3-3 classic, he has one piece left over: either a high-ranking guy like Kroos or Modric or his surprise player, the tireless Fede Valverde . The most threatened by the bench seems the Croatian Golden Ball. «We want to continue with the regularity. It's a match to confirm this dynamic, ”says ZZ.

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