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He was eager to say it and enthusiastically placed it in the second answer from yesterday's press conference.

"My team has, above all, a lot of heart," said

when he was reminded of the casualties that he suddenly accumulates in the infirmary.

Three league games and three KO starters (Kroos, Hazard and Carvajal) plus the substitute (Odriozola) who theoretically had to replace the right back.

Rather than complain about bad luck or the lack of reinforcements in this crisis market due to the

, he preferred to look at his staff and give them a carnation.

With heart he meant a mixture of pride and character, the formula that served to win the last League when hardly anyone expected it.

The French coach intends to continue using as an internal fire that point of vindication of a wardrobe that mixes a glorious generation with another that dreams of being one.

The title achieved in July, despite the exceptional circumstances, served the group to demonstrate that it can continue to lift trophies without

and without a substitute of similar level to the Portuguese star.

The white footballers know perfectly well that, after winning the

, this season the magnifying glass will be on the

, where they link two eliminations in improper eighths of the shield they wear.

But while the European exams arrive,

try to continue adding triumphs in the domestic competition, the daily bread that avoids always annoying crises.

He needs, of course, to raise the level of his game, after three games where he lacked government and hit the target and had defensive tremors left over.

The miraculous hands of Thibaut Courtois will not always appear.

Many casualties

The injuries of fundamental players complicate the path of

, forced today to look for a right back in his closet.

The problem in

twin

leaves the Frenchman without a pure substitute for Carvajal, although the young man from San Sebastian is not his favorite footballer.

Last year he allowed him to go on loan to

without much trouble.

Then he preferred to use

with a changed leg or

, a center-back who performs with correction in the lane.

In fact, in the

2018

final he

played in that position for many minutes after the muscle break of Carvajal, a basic player in the Madrid system, due to the depth he brings.

And the Zidane team is not there to lose offensive air, seen what was seen in the first games of the course.

The coach blames the poor preseason, without friendlies and with little preparation time.

All this does not help the legs either, weaker due to the lack of running.

“Things get difficult from time to time, but together we can achieve very nice things.

That is what we are going to do even with difficulties, "he claimed yesterday to his men, visiting

this afternoon

, a rival who knelt him last season on Carnival Saturday.

An ugly night for whites, pre-pandemic, which ended with

defeat and relapse

.

In addition to the rear, ZZ will touch up the rest of the lines.

Yesterday he vigorously defended rotations: "To win only 10 games, I would only use 11 players, but to win trophies and play more than 60 games we need them all."

At lunchtime,

will know if he is the starter again or continues as a revulsive of a somewhat shrunken attack front lately.

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