Madrid already has the 34th

Also Sergio Ramos, with his hierarchy and his goals (the top scorer of the team behind Benzema!), Has led the team, dragging Varane and Carvajal to his backpack, both with high marks at the end of the course. Casemiro, of course, has once again been that corrective factor in the core that has grown with his imposing physical presence. Modric, elegant and sacrificed at the same time, has also rescued essences from his youth despite his 34 years. And Kroos abandoned the erratic and passive image of last season and has returned to being the Metronome.

And above, Vinicius and Rodrygo were gaining a place in Zizou's massive rotations, taking advantage of the fact that Hazard has been almost unprecedented between injuries and low form states. Asensio has also returned after ten months of absence and that has been great news, perhaps the most beautiful of this alirón. There is no doubt about Benzema, although his goalscoring production could improve, but we were left with great things like his great goal against Valencia at Di Stéfano or the magic heel at Cornellà. An author player who only lacked more goals to be a top among the top. That is why this League has more merit, given that Hazard (due to misfortune with injuries) and Bale (due to their laziness and vocational dedication to golf) failed with a crash. Despite all that, Zidane knew how to handle his cards wisely and has had as a prize a League that tastes of glory. The 34. One more. The old normal is back …

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“Dying with your ideas is living with your ideas,” says Zidane, who took a worn-out team and raised it again with its principles. One of them is to make the squad feel like a team, to involve all the players in the objective and, with some exceptions (Bale, James …), they have done it again. It has shot 26 players, whose performance we analyze below.

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For a team like Real Madrid with 89 seasons in the First Division, any book with statistics on the history of the League is full of footnotes. 'Exiles', games postponed, interrupted … But the journey of the white team to conquer its 34th title will occupy, more than an asterisk reference, at least an entire paragraph for an 'odyssey' that, only in LaLiga, has lasted 11 months …

In recent years, Madrid have seen matches be postponed (happily) on several occasions due to their participation in the Club World Cup. It was not planned to be like this this season, but circumstances have moved several encounters. The first Clásico, scheduled for October 26, had to be postponed to December 18 due to the riots that occurred in Barcelona in the days prior to the game after the 'procés' sentence was known. The 10th matchday went on to take place between the 17th and the 18th under severe security measures in the vicinity of the Camp Nou to avoid altercations that would force the match to be suspended again.

It was going to be the anecdote of the campaign, the caveat that would force in the future to review the data when performing performance analyzes at the start of the season. And the coronavirus arrived. Real Madrid-Eibar went from playing at the Bernabéu behind closed doors … to playing at Di Stéfano three months later. The League was held 93 days by confinement and then it was resolved in a frantic way. Madrid have played the last 11 days condensed in 36 days.

The absence of public took advantage of Madrid to take the matches to Di Stéfano and thus accelerate the works of the Bernabéu. The charming stadium became the 100th coliseum to host a game of the Spanish First Division and will be remembered by a boy of 15 years (and 219 days) who in a Real Madrid-Mallorca became the youngest rookie in the history of the League: the vermilion Luka Romero. In Valdebebas a referee has also taken the alternative: Valencian Rodríguez Carpallo led the second half of Real Madrid-Alavés due to the injury of Gil Manzano.

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Zidane's photograph in Los Cármenes, maintained by his players, may not have existed. In October 2019, the Marseillaise was under maximum scrutiny after losing in Mallorca 1-0. A result that aggravated the two serious punctures in the Champions League, against PSG and Bruges, which could leave Madrid out of the Champions League if they lost in Istanbul. In the absence of public support from the institutional and with the spectral figure of Mourinho keeping pace with the music of Psychosis, Ramos stuck his chest out for his coach “It would be easy to say that Zidane will continue until the end of the season and there would be no debates. Mourinho? Zidane is cured of fright. We know there is a different wand for some coaches and players, I won't say names. ” Another goal of the camero. Zidane saved that situation and soon after it was as if that moment of weakness had been a bad dream. “Zizou is a blessing”, Florentino would proclaim triumphant as soon as the Spanish Super Cup rose in Jeddah.

But if Zizou doesn't do something, it's to hide under the broad shadow of his three Champions. The League obsesses him and seeing his Madrid mistreat it in the 2017-18 season hurt him to the marrow. This League, despite the Covid-19, has no asterisk. Zizou built a good inertia until the Bernabéu Classic and the pandemic has not made him improvise. Upside down. Together with Dupont, the physical trainer, he posed a postconfinition miniLiga almost like a World Cup. Eleven high intensity matches. Eleven finals. “Whoever fails the least will win this League,” he insisted over and over again to the team upon returning to Valdebebas. That's how it was, with Ramos becoming more than ever in his extension on the field and a final streak with Courtois' goal closed tight.

The blackboard. Without that glorious Unit B from 2016-17 this time he has been changing from 4-4-3 to 4-4-2 when he wanted to protect himself, being champion without losing against any of the competition's middle and heavyweights. Neither Valverde nor Setién, neither Cholo nor Bordalás, nor Lopetegui or Celades. Zidane has added to his ingenuity to manage a locker room with flammable material (Bale, James …) the callus that gives the increasing accumulated experience. Tactically it is richer and less easy to counter.

His fifth wound around the league (counting his Scudetti with Juve) is the second as coach and there are thirteen titles as coach of Madrid in just 208 games. He goes out to one every 16 games on the bench. In the locker room, as long as Zizou is their commander, the League is and will remain a priority. He is with his pupils (“Seeing them train daily is the hell”, he has said with his peculiar loquacity) and his pupils, with him. The league effort is not negotiable.

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Benzema has been another footballer since July 10, 2018. On that day, Real Madrid made Cristiano's transfer to Juventus official and a question disturbed Real Madrid players: who will assume responsibility in attack? Bale was expected to step forward, but it was Benzema who assumed that leadership. He went from being in the shadow of the Portuguese (12 goals in all competitions in 2017-18) to becoming the undisputed leading scorer in 2018-19 (30 goals). The irregularity of the team and the dance of coaches (Lopetegui, Solari and Zidane) prevented their goals from being translated into titles, but Karim has maintained this outstanding performance this year to be, finally, the offensive leader in a title achieved by Madrid , after so many years with a secondary role after Cristiano.

For the second consecutive season, he has been the team's top scorer in all competitions (26 goals) and also in the League (21 goals), where only Messi (23) has managed to beat him so far. That increase in his records in front of goal has not prevented him from continuing to be a '10' in the skin of a '9', because also in the facet of assists he appears in a privileged place: with eight he is the sixth best passer of the championship (11 in all competitions). He does not lead the table of assistants in the global, although he left a pass for the memory that undoubtedly occupies the first place when looking for the best assistance in the League that Real Madrid has conquered. He did it against Espanyol on matchday 32. A magical heel to assist Casemiro and achieve a fundamental victory at home against a team that was risking his life.

Regularity. With 32 years he has found his perfect point of maturity as a scorer and also in the physical section. Aware that the years do not forgive, Benzema has taken care of his preparation to be in the best moment of his career.

Madrid signed Jovic last summer (60 million euros cost his transfer) thinking that Karim would need more breaks. However, the Serbian's low performance has caused Benzema to have started in 35 of the 37 that Zidane's have needed to conquer the club's 34th League. A small muscle problem made him miss the Spanish Super Cup, but the rest of the season has been available in every game. Zizou, aware of its importance, has squeezed it. And Karim has responded with honors.

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It has an aura and mystical matters do not understand ages. Whoever says that leadership is something intangible only has to touch Sergio Ramos. The League consists of 38 capsules, but the camero has won almost the longest, the most complicated ones, those of the Coronavirus League, as he himself baptized. He has been at times the pichichi of the post-stop championship being a force of nature. Because he turned 34 in quarantine while physically preparing himself at home as if he had to face his idolized Connor McGregor when he returned. “How are you, Churu”, some of his colleagues told him on social networks. The Benjamin Button of Real Madrid.

Because there are also your data. It has been Ramos' best scoring year, the team's second highest scorer after Benzema and he embodies limitless ambition in his Viking warlord look. Excessive and great, he is able to steal in his area and ‘kill’ the opponent. He did it on his goal against Eibar in the first game after the league break. A manual coast to coast. Not only at the Bernabéu / Di Stéfano, he has also been King in the North, with decisive goals at Mendizorroza, El Sadar, Reale Arena and San Mamés. “He is the best defender in the world.” Zidane's word.

Not only is it now, it is also his career until today. This campaign has become the top scorer in the history of LaLiga ahead of Koeman and burns wheels in the statistical Olympus of the white entity. Right now he is fourth in the ranking of matches (649) and is going for Sanchís (710), Casillas (725) and Raúl (741).

With his renewal on the air (although the will of the player and the club is to reach an agreement) and another season of his Amazon documentary ready, he continues to act as a media bastion when it comes to defending the club (“You can't say that we won this League because of the referees, that they stop putting together movies ”, he replied to Barça for his complaints with the VAR). Zizou made it clear: “Ramos is our leader, he shows us the way.” The ‘4’ marked that of League 34 Young people make their way in a Madrid each season more designed to facilitate their transition from adolescents to men, from promises to stars. In a squad with an average of 26.95 years, Fede Valverde (21), Vinicius (20) and Rodrygo (19) have shown in this League that age is just a number. The Brazilians, the youngest of the squad, and the Uruguayan, the smallest room, know how to handle themselves.

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It has taken more than a decade for a Real Madrid goalkeeper to win the Zamora Trophy again. The honor corresponds to Courtois, who succeeds Casillas twelve years after the Móstoles team achieved recognition in the 2007-2008 season. The Belgian has succeeded in a team traditionally characterized by its offensive power, but this season, with a scoring average less than the two goals scored per game, it has cemented the conquest of the title in a rocky defense with historical numbers in the trajectory white club garter belt.

Courtois is going to take the Zamora with a spectacular performance. Almost two games have to pass before it fits a bit. His average is less than 0.6 goals per game, the best among the goalkeepers of the 98 teams in the top five European leagues, ahead of Alisson (Liverpool) and Rajkovic (Reims).

The second least goalscorer Madrid in the last decade has made up for his offensive deficiencies with security in the rear. He has not received so few goals for more than half a century: in the 68-69 season (21), but with 16 teams and only 20 days in the championship calendar. The white back is the second, after Getafe, which has given fewer shots to his rivals and Courtois and Areola the goalkeepers of LaLiga Santander who have received fewer shots on goal.

Zidane has insisted a lot on the importance of the collective effort in defense, but Courtois's individual work has also paid off. Doubts arose at the start of the league, when the team conceded six goals in the first four games. But the Belgian international managed to turn the tortilla around with 18 goals to zero (Areola bolted on goal in another match). No team in the League has scored more than two goals for Madrid, something that has not happened since the 2008-2009 season.

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Young people make their way in a Madrid each season more designed to facilitate their transition from adolescents to men, from promises to stars. In a squad with an average of 26.95 years, Fede Valverde (21), Vinicius (20) and Rodrygo (19) have shown in this League that age is just a number. The Brazilians, the youngest of the squad, and the Uruguayan, the smallest room, know how to handle themselves. El Pajarito was the 9th in participation (1,816 minutes) in the course of its hatching. It has made everyone forget the desire for Pogba except Zidane, who still has that thorn stuck in him. Fede has gone from intervening in 16 days, 6 starting, in 2018-19 to 32, starting 20, in 2019-20. “In two years it will be one of the best '8s' in the world,” Casemiro said of him in December. Before the coronavirus crisis, Transfermarkt valued him at € 60M, triple the price of June 20, 2019.

Vinicius has also changed his life this League. His first at the Bernabéu started at Castilla and he finished it, marked by a serious injury, with few opportunities for the returned Zidane. And so the second began, but his drive and his defensive commitment have knocked the door open: starting with 18 games, 9 as a starter, 28 games, 11 in eleven, being the 12th (1,264 minutes) most used footballer. It has left its mark, above all, in the second part, the decisive one, of the season: key in 1-0 to Atleti, author of the 1-0 of the Bernabéu Classic, victim of the penalty kick against Real, responsible for 1- 0 to Mallorca … In total, 3 targets and 2 assists.

Rodrygo has been to come and kiss the saint. He could not have presented better in the League: he entered against Osasuna and saw the door in 96 seconds, the earliest target of a Real Madrid player in the tournament. In the germ of the play he made a control that Zidane applauded with “it was the host.” With a profile of the subsidiary, he has appeared three times (with two goals and one red) for Segunda B, but after the break by COVID-19 he gained prominence and closed his first League with 19 games, 12 starts and 2 goals.

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Less in the mouth of the general public than from the inside, but that of Grégory Dupont (1972, Valenciennes) is another of the proper names of this white League. Recruited as a substitute for Antonio Pintus last summer, his role has been especially relevant in the final stretch of the course, in which the eruption of the coronavirus blew up all the plans. Dupont went to confinement with, perhaps, the biggest challenge of his career: that the squad stayed in shape during the period without competition, something complicated in itself and even more so with the concentration of games that he expected with the return of football.

But there were few specialists like the French for that journey through the unknown, the new football that the COVID-19 has brought. He was the main architect of the great preparation for the 2018 World Cup in France, which, according to FIFA data, ran almost 108 kilometers per game in Russia. The 11 League days in 35 days invited to focus planning based on the similarity with the World Cup. And the result has been most optimal, with a shower of points and resistance to fatigue that has been possible with the fact that Madrid arrived at day 37 with 100.5 hours less rest accumulated compared to its rivals, for the 6.5 with the most respite for Barça.

One of the keys was in the foundations of the kind of preseason in May: aware that his players had also exercised with professionals he trusted, in permanent contact with him, Dupont asked for the reports of the tests carried out in Valdebebas and crushed himself. to compare and calibrate specific plans to have everyone on the same level. One of the many details for which in the sports direction, as in the locker room, they consider him another galactic signing.