Real Madrid are looking forward to the interim lead and are afraid of Celta Vigo surprises

Real Madrid seeks to restore balance and return to the top, even if temporarily, when it hosts Celta Figo tomorrow in the seventeenth stage of the Spanish Football Championship.


The royal club disappointed hopes on Wednesday by falling to a 1-1 draw at Elche when it stopped its winning streak at five, abandoning the lead that it was sharing with its neighbor Atletico Madrid.

"It's a disappointment, but in the first half we had a lot of chances to score the second goal which would have allowed us to play more calmly. When they leveled, they backed off, and it was more difficult. It's football, I can't. Do anything. "

Real Madrid wishes to win the three points to tighten the screws on its neighbor Atletico, who has two postponed matches and is a guest at Deportivo Alaves on Sunday, but the task of the royal club will not be easy for Celta Figo, one of two teams with Real Madrid, to collect the most points in the last six matches. (16 points).

Celta Vigo has not lost since falling to Sevilla 1-4 in the tenth stage on November 21, thanks to the league's top scorer so far, his international striker Iago Aspas, who scored nine goals this season, the last of which was against Huesca (2-1) on Wednesday.

The royal club hopes that its French striker Karim Benzema, second in the list of scorers (8 goals), will return to his hobby of shaking the net after he fasted about it in front of Elche, in addition to the return of its Belgian star Eden Hazar, who fought the last minutes of Wednesday's match after a long absence due to injury , Without succeeding in changing the result.

And Atletico Madrid seem likely to continue to cling to the top when it comes to Deportivo Alaves, the 13th.

The second representative of the Spanish capital is doing well in the LaLiga this season, as it is the only team that has suffered one loss so far, and the least has tied alongside Sevilla (twice) and sits at the top by two points with two postponed matches that will raise the difference to eight points in the event that they win, which enhances their chances in the coronation. With his eleventh league title and his first since the 2013-2014 season.

But the men of Argentine coach Diego Simeone, who led the team on Wednesday in its 500th game at the head of his technical department in various competitions, are well aware that the task will not be easy for Deportivo Alves, who came out looted in his confrontations with the Spanish football poles Real Madrid and Barcelona, ​​where he beat the first 2-1 In Madrid, the second was forced to draw 1-1, knowing that he played with ten men for half an hour.

Barcelona hopes to compensate for its disappointing draw against Eibar 1-1 Tuesday when it comes to the last-placed Huesca. Argentine captain Lionel Messi will return to the Catalan club after his absence from Tuesday's match due to giving him two additional days of rest to treat an ankle injury, and thus will be support Strong for the offensive line, which was dim in front of Eibar.

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