All the focuses will focus tomorrow on the figure of Martin Odegaard. Both Real and Madrid fans will analyze their performance. The first because they are upset with the performance of the Norwegian crack in the first two appointments after the confinement, before Osasuna and Alavés, in which their performance was very poor, a thousand miles from that offered throughout the course.
White fans will scrutinize his work on the field to determine if they see him with enough draft to wear white next season. The best news is that the scrutinizing eyes of both will have a recipient because, as MD, Martin could know yesterday Odegaard Yes, he will be able to jump to the field tomorrow to play against the team to which he belongs and he intends for next year despite the muscular discomfort for which he was replaced in the 62nd minute of the match against Alavés.
The Nordic signed one of his worst performances since he dressed as txuri urdin in Mendizorrotza. Apathetic, he barely touched 27 balls throughout the game and did not risk as usual in vertical shipments, but always preferred to give easy passes. And he also wasted a juicy direct free kick near the front of the area.
10 games without 'wetting'
He is still waiting for Drammen, who this time will be surrounded by the players with whom he feels more placid and secure in the core: Zubeldia and a Merino who returns after completing his sanction match. However, it is becoming urgent that Odegaard concretize in assists or goals all that work that develops between the lines, which reached splendor at certain moments of the course. He has 10 League matches, of which he has taken part in eight, without scoring a single goal and without serving a goal ball to a teammate. His only goals in 2020 were in the Cup, Real Madrid at the Bernabéu and Mirandés at Anoeta. The star condition must be fed throughout the course with some continuity.
It is evident that tomorrow is not just another game for Odegaard and not only because of the need to win after two setbacks to maintain an advantage in the European fight. The Real playmaker will face the coach's team that intends to have him on his team next season, Zinedine
Zidane. Precisely on the conversation he has with the French coach, it will depend on whether the Scandinavian remains at Real next season or breaks the sealed agreement last summer and returns to Madrid a year earlier.
Pending talk with Zidane
This pending dialogue is not expected to take place tomorrow in Donostia because Madrid will travel during the day and health protocols do not allow contact between the members of the teams.
The first step to stay has already been taken Odegaard when, as this newspaper reported exclusively, formally communicated to the Royal that their intention is to fulfill their second assignment campaign, although in the end they do not qualify for Europe. It remains to be seen what is the final position of Madrid, which has held talks and negotiations with Olabe and Aperribay that show that they are evaluating recovering him prematurely.
Odegaard He is aware that in Madrid he will be judged much more for this game than all those who follow the white club will see than for many others of the season. He arrives after two of his worst encounters with Real and with some muscle problems, but it is in these settings that the greatest must be distinguished.
Nine games plus the Cup final are left to Odegaard and all the realists to turn this season that was being so extraordinary into something successful or another year of transition.