In recent years, Madrid have strived to score more goals than Barça and receive less than Atletico . On that fragile, hesitant equidistance, always on the verge of breaking through one of the poles, he has based the bulk of his league possibilities.

When he merged both ends, in the 2007-08 season , he won the competition with an 18-point advantage over Barça (third) and 21 over Atleti (fourth). The intrusion of the unexpected Villarreal (second) does not deny the theory, among other reasons because it left the yellows at eight. A comfortable difference.

Madrid is not a defensive team . It does not and should not be. Neither the fans would tolerate it. But, even so considered, in this League, and despite Benzema's scoring numbers , defensive strength, not concept, has given him the title. In the absence of a day, he will not score more goals than Barcelona (68 against 81). But it will fit less than Atleti (23 by 26). Never in his 34 titles has he received comparatively such a low amount. It is true that in the 64-65 campaign they put him 18. And 22 in the 66-67. But in both games only 30 games were played, eight fewer than now.

Zidane has followed the old law according to which a team is built, to attack and to protect itself, from its backbone: the goalkeeper, the central defender, the midfielder and the center forward. He has had all that in Courtois, Ramos, Casemiro and Benzema . With a couple of reinforcements. Varane has formed a single body with Ramos. Siamese. A synergy. And Casemiro is, above all, and despite his four goals, a defensive, stabilizing means. Balancing.

The always remarkable production of Madrid is required and inevitable in a team of its caliber. He usually fulfills it. The defensive guarantee, on the other hand, is not a constant in their behavior. Nor does it matter too much to the amateur type, inclined by habit and palate to ask for a show, and accustomed to enjoying it. This time the team, irregular and only brilliant at times, has, however, performed above its ups and downs, less abrupt, than those of Barça, in the spirit of a balanced balance. In it, the weight, distributed, has been better supported by the rear.

Forwards are said to win matches and champions defenses . The phrase means that the defenders avoid a greater number of goals than those that the forwards, more decisive in their isolation, produce. In today's football that is called balance.

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