The classic of the coaches: Zidane against Koeman, from the Glasgow volley to the Wembley goal, two icons face to face

• Crisis: Zidane's method, naked

The two gave a European Cup to their clubs with unforgettable goals.

volley

and

,

and

, two icons of Real Madrid and Barcelona that will cross this Saturday on the benches of the Camp Nou.

The first, with much glory behind him;

the second, with everything to write in a jacket.

Both, in their own way, play a lot in the first match that faces them as coaches.

In short, they never saw each other, belonging to two close but different generations.

The Dutchman retired (1997) when the Frenchman was about to become the king of world football.

Curiously, the defender scored more goals for Barça (83 in 254 games) than ZZ for Madrid (49 in 227).

The advantage of the central blond: that he threw penalties.

You can also say that his only match against the whites as a coach (of Valencia) ended in victory at the Bernabéu (2-3, in 2008).

He does not find the classic garter belt normality at the

.

For the second season, the appointment will enter the books already before the referee calls the start of the game.

If last year, the violence of the independence protests forced it to be delayed for two months, now it is the damn virus that shakes it by leaving it for the first time in history without an audience in the stands.

Extraordinary circumstance that will be a financial ruin for the host and its impact on the game remains to be seen.

It is not difficult to imagine that,

, the afternoon is more comfortable for

in the face of the silence of the stadium that squeezes it the most for 90 minutes.

does not have to be

dressed in white on the grass for the environmental charge against the great enemy to be very powerful, spurred on in recent years by political seasoning.

But the truth is that with Madrid you never know, capable in recent years of giving a good image -almost always- in the house of his greatest rival, while it costs him a world to defeat him in his own.

Yes, he did it on March 1, with Vinicius opening that

-

night

the Bernabéu.

team is

now disconcerting, minimized at home in Valdebebas against two rivals that did not seem, on paper,

Those two recent spots (Cádiz and Shakhtar) mark his visit to the Camp Nou this afternoon, waiting to see if he will know how to wake up as he did before, under pressure and on etiquette day, or if he will continue to widen the size of his incipient crisis.

With Ramos

The French coach confirmed yesterday that

will be able to play after missing the

.

His participation relieves a defense that looks like clay when he is absent.

It was, it is true, in the first half against

, when the Andalusians shook Madrid at will, but nobody disputes that the presence of the captain completely changes the image of the white team.

It is urgent for the League champion to recover the lost solidity, both behind and in the center of the field, where the key to the clash is surely.

Zidane could try to win by majority in the medullary, if he accompanies his classic trio (

) with

or even with an extra piece.

Based on that, Benzema would be more or less accompanied upstairs to try to open the doors of a rival who also does not appear with very tuned violins.

The defeat of Ferencvaros is a better poster than

hot flashes

against

, but

acknowledges that he still has a lot of iron left in a team in works, who wants both the awakening of

and the progression of

.

His doubt will be

, threatened as a bench in the great duel of the League.

“It will be a good game despite the situation and the empty field that we are going to find.

It is a day to vindicate ourselves », says Zidane, unbeaten in his trips to the

since he arrived on the white bench in January 2016. In fact, since then, the worst Madridista afternoon there was without him, just now two years ago in the afternoon that marked the end of Julen Lopetegui (5-1).

"In these games that your audience supports you is important because they are almost another player," Koeman lamented yesterday, always fearful, as a good Barça veteran, of his adversary today: "The players have experience at a high level.

I do not expect a vulnerable Madrid, on the contrary ».

In his last classic as a Barça footballer, in May 1995, he won 1-0 with a goal from

, the tennis player's uncle.

It was the smooth rematch at 5-0 of the first round at the Bernabéu.

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