A home calendar for Madrid

The calendar has provided that the visits followed by the Madrid a Vila-Real and Paris be the last trips of the white club in practically a month. The Real Madrid will play Villarreal next Saturday, February 12 in a crucial duel for their league aspirations (4:15 p.m., Movistar LaLiga). Two days after that match, the white expedition will head to Paris to face each other on Tuesday, February 15, at PSG at Princes Park in the first leg of the round of 16 Champions. That will be Madrid’s last trip outside the Spanish capital in almost a month.

The next time I have to catch a plane it will be to travel to the Balearic Islands, where the weekend of March 12 and 13 will be measured on day 28 to Mallorca at a time yet to be confirmed. The five games between the first leg of the Champions and the clash against the vermilion team will be played in the Community of Madrid.

On Saturday, February 19, the team of Carlo Ancelotti will receive the Deportivo Alaves at Santiago Bernabeu, then visit the Vallecano Ray (February 26) and, before facing the second leg of the round of 16 against PSG, will be measured at Real society in Chamartín. In total, since the Madrid I return from Paris on February 15 at night, I could be between 28 and 29 days without having to take the plane.

The vagaries of the calendar in 2019

This situation of disputing an important phase of the course without having to travel is not the first time that it happens to the Real Madrid. In the 2018/2019 season, the calendar in the decisive stretch of the League It was very comfortable in the logistics section for the white club, benefited by the largest number of teams from the Community of Madrid in the First Division.

In that course, with Zidane’s Madrid Evicted and without title options after the dismissals of Julen Lopetegui and Santiago Solari later, the white team had to play seven of the last eight League games in the Community. The only trip was to San Sebastián on May 12 on the penultimate day.

After falling in Mestalla on April 3, Madrid chained six games in the Community: Real Madrid-Eibar (2-1), Leganés-Real Madrid (1-1), Real Madrid-Athletic (3-0), Getafe-Real Madrid (0-0), Rayo Vallecano-Real Madrid (1-0) and Real Madrid-Villarreal (3-2). Then he faced Real (3-1) in Anoeta and ended on May 19 against Betis on the last day, in which he lost 0-2 to close a disastrous course

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