The strange fortress of Valdebebas: Real Madrid sweeps without fans

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With the team break closed, Real Madrid faces the first mountain pass.

The game on Saturday against Cádiz (6.30 pm) will be followed in the next 10 days by

and two days of the Champions League.

The first two dates will be at the Alfredo di Stéfano, where the whites have built a fort.

While football, numbers in hand, wonders what has become of the field factor, Zidane's men boast of an impeccable record in their provisional home: seven wins in seven games.

After seven and a half months, it is almost a trivial question to know who scored the last Real Madrid goal at the Bernabéu.

When the pandemic stopped the world and it was clear that there would be no public until 2021, the white club moved the matches to Valdebebas to accelerate the pharaonic renovation of the stadium.

The image he has given since

contrasts with the trembling pulse that appeared in the last month before the break.

A team that, without brilliance, dominates behind and competes with astonishing regularity.

Real Madrid have won the seven games they have played at Di Stéfano: the six with which they clinched the last league title and the victory against Valladolid in the only one they have played there this year.

And even more than the full of victories, the rotundity of the scoring balance is surprising:

, the best sign of that solidity that begins in high pressure but above all rests on the spine formed by Courtois, Ramos , Varane and Casemiro.

Full of victories

Di Stéfano's record contrasts with the numbers he signed last season at the Bernabéu.

Of the 18 games he played there among all competitions, he barely won 55.6%:

.

Although Real Madrid was the only one to finish the League undefeated at home, La Castellana saw the elimination in the Cup against Real Sociedad (3-4) or the defeat against Manchester City (1-2).

Of the four games he played at home in the Champions League, he only won one against the bottom.

Since the change, he has gone from conceding just over one goal per game to just 0.3.

In the last seven seasons, the balance had only been worse in 2017-18, when the team disengaged from the League to focus its efforts on the Champions League.

Even so, that neglect left a record very similar to last year: 55.2% of victories.

In contrast, between 2013 and 2017 Real Madrid won 81.8% of their home games.

It is true that he had the punch of

, but even in the first year without the Portuguese the percentage of victories at the Bernabéu was higher (66.7% of victories).

They rightly asked

at a press conference if that tight and patient control would have been possible with the stands full.

There is a familiar runrún in the Bernabéu that reveals restlessness when he understands that Real Madrid is maturing the parties more.

However, the Frenchman flatly rejected the theory.

"We prefer to play with the public, which is normal," he settled.

The technician defends his work, which in these months has achieved that regularity that he demands so much.

Perhaps he still wouldn't give him to

, he does raise the bar in La Liga, a tournament that he always likes to stand out for what he says about performance on a day-to-day basis.

"I asked Jovic"

The

presentation

raised a stir in Valdebebas.

The one from Parla assured that Zidane had told him that he wanted to stay with him and find a way out for Luka Jovic so that he would have minutes, but the Frenchman was blunt: "What is said is not like that. Jovic is a Real Madrid player and I have I asked ", stressed the technician, who described as" nonsense "speculation about the future of the Serbian.

Hours later he offered a list with two important novelties:

was left out due to annoyances caused by the national team break and Lucas Cañizares entered for the first time as the third goalkeeper.

Precisely under the sticks is one of the doubts for the game against Cádiz.

Courtois also returned with a muscle problem and could make way for Andriy Lunin.

It would be one of the rotations that are sensed this Saturday at the foot of this first mountain pass and three days after making his debut in the Champions League ... Also at the Di Stéfano.

Although UEFA will allow matches with the public (if allowed by the Autonomous Communities), Real Madrid will not return to the Bernabéu yet: enabling it in the middle of the work would be a logistical disorder and would entail extra costs that could not be covered with such a limited capacity.

(The answer for the orange cheese is

).

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