• Real Madrid.A year later, the same crisis

The crises are less without the roar of the

Bernabéu

.

The Real Madrid squad and its board know this, this Thursday all with a hard hangover after the second consecutive defeat.

It is not difficult to imagine how the white coliseum would have sent its players to the locker room on Wednesday, after the grotesque of the first half against

Shakhtar

. They also recognized from the locker room that perhaps with the public the comeback would have come, due to that extra push that A

lit

Chamartín

always gave the s

uyos.

A few stands in silence that on Saturday, in the

Camp Nou

, can be an advantage for whites.

The face and the cross of coronavirus football, where Madrid

Zidane

moved quite well (title of

League

included) until this dry stop in October arrived. The alarms - sorry for the topic - were still off this Thursday at the club, where they are valid for the moment

the coach's excuses

: from the lack of preseason to the streak of injuries or the confusion that always causes the national team to stop.

The problem is that what could have been a simple accident (Cádiz) happened on Wednesday to

worrying trend

, especially seeing the immediate calendar that looms.

Shakes the system

Neither him

Camp Nou

nor a pseudo wintry visit to

Germany

(Tuesday, Monchengladbach) make up the best schedule for a suddenly shaky team, whose wardrobe fails and has no time to win back key players.

Yes it will be-surely-

Sergio Ramos

in Barcelona;

not so Carvajal, another basic pillar in the rear, nor, of course,

Eden Hazard

, the offensive piece that should have been differential in this post stage

Christian

Zidane, astute, understood a year ago what his team needed to be competitive: he helps

Casemiro

in the center of the field

Valverde

) and tighter lines to shoot the defensive level, with

Mendy

instead of Marcelo.

A style as effective as sometimes not very showy that he perfected to the maximum after confinement (alirón and wall in the goal).

A path that perhaps could only be allowed by the fact of playing behind closed doors, without the Bernabéu buzz.

There, even victories are put on ice if football tends not to entertain. The Frenchman's new method was based on defensive solidity, but this in recent games has disappeared, and Madrid has been left naked, by walking so fair of responses in attack.

At another time, the swings behind were solved by the artillery from above.

And to the exchange of blows, almost always the whites ended up prevailing.

Now, on the contrary, those of

Zidane

they are short of nails, even more so if

Benzema

, as happened on Wednesday, he stays on the bench.

Rotations questioned

The board and the ZZ itself have verified, in addition to a certain lack of motivation, the decline of some players who were very important in the rotations.

Today it is very difficult for the technician to get performance from

Isco

,

Marcelo

,

Nacho

or

Lucas Vazquez

-some veterans, others with their contracts nearing expiration-.

And also young people like

Militao

, who continue with the L on their back when the demands of Real Madrid do not allow so much cooking time. "I am responsible," he recalled with intention

Zidane

after the belly against the Ukrainians, grabbed the return of Ramos to try to regain his composure on Saturday in the classic.

After, exam in

Monchengladbach

, two dates to gain momentum or to fall definitively into a crisis that would inevitably endanger the Frenchman, a specialist in resurrections.

The numbers

  • 8goals

    .

    Zidane's team has only scored eight goals in seven games this season.

  • 7 losses

    .

    Those of Madrid in the Champions League in their last eight games without Ramos.

  • 9 classics

    .

    As a coach, Zidane has four wins (two at the Camp Nou), three draws and two defeats.

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