Hailed after his victory in the Clasico, Zidane still extinguishes the critics

Zidane's Real Madrid won the Clasico against Barça on October 24, 2020. -

• Real Madrid beat FC Barcelona in the La Liga clash on Saturday. 

• Under pressure after two straight home defeats, Zinédine Zidane silenced critics and those who were starting to wonder whether to keep him on the bench. 

• This art of reacting when things go wrong is a real habit for the French coach, regularly targeted during his first stint on the bench and since he took over the team in March 2019. 

He may repeat when he extinguishes fires that he is "not there to close mouths", Zinédine Zidane is nonetheless a master in the field.

Every time the leaders and the media start to set up the scaffold - a habit that resurfaces with almost every defeat at Real Madrid - the French coach finds a way to save himself.

Weakened by two ugly defeats in a row at home, against Cadiz (0-1) then Shakhtar Donetsk (2-3), he saw his team afford Barça (1-3) on Saturday night at Camp Nou.

And a few weeks of peace.

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After the meeting, Zizou did not make cases on his personal case.

A habit in his communication.

He endorses everything when things go wrong and talks about his team when it smiles.

"After all that has been said this week, I am happy for the players," he said simply.

After Luka's (Modric) goal, I saw the whole team come together, I'm really happy for them.

We can take advantage of what we have done.

"

"Real is still recovering"

Leader of La Liga this Sunday morning, while awaiting the result of Villarreal and Real Sociedad (who can return to the front but have one more game), Zidane, who can be proud of not having lost in six encounters against the Catalan enemy, will be able to calmly prepare the trip to the lawn of Borussia Mönchengladbach for the second day of the Champions League on Tuesday.

In the meantime, the Madrid newspapers

and

, always quick to get carried away on one side or the other, salute the way in which the French weather the storms.

“In extreme situations, like when he was a player, he always finds the light.

Zizou hugged his players and they answered him.

This is not the first time that the Marseillais has made a gap and brings the car back on the road ", writes

, who underlines in one that" Real is always recovering ".

The front page of the newspaper As of October 25, 2020. - As

Marca

, for his part, lists the seven keys that allowed Real to win at their rival.

The most decisive according to the daily: the return of Sergio Ramos.

Released during the match against Cadiz, the Madrid captain was not there in C1.

Without him, the team is not the same.

This is especially true for Raphaël Varane, of worrying feverishness when the prisoner is not at his side.

“He was the boss from the moment he got on the bus until he left the stadium, making Varane a spectacular center-back, eating Barcelona forwards one by one and causing a penalty, which he has transformed himself… He does everything right and with a fierce hunger, ”writes

.

The pressure is on Koeman now

"We know what Sergio means to us, and not just as a player," ZZ added.

For the whole team, for this energy that he always brings to the field.

We will always want him on our team.

"" I've always said that no matter how you get to a clasico, this game is extraordinary.

It gives more motivation, it's a unique match in the world, we approached it with enormous desire, debriefed the person concerned.

The team showed commitment and proved that the reviews don't get to us.

"

The importance of the boss has its negative counterpart.

“When he's not there, the team collapses,”

observes

.

It is true.

But the time is not over for Zidane.

That, he leaves it to his Barcelona counterpart Ronald Koeman, entangled in 12th place in the championship with already two defeats in five games and who still does not know what to do with Antoine Griezmann.

On Saturday, the French entered in the 81st minute, when Barça were behind since the hour mark. There is a problem to be resolved for the Dutchman, but he is not the only one.

The Catalan press will not fail to make him understand.

Each in turn.

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