DC News: the key men of Real Madrid’s defensive improvement

The Real Madrid The season began transmitting the same feeling as last season of being a shy team, sad in many games and without resources to get the good results. Nothing is further from reality. Zinedine Zidane and his pupils have reversed the situation and have done so with capital letters.

The French coach was on the ropes, playing to the spot in the Ali Sami Yen, but everything changed there before the Galatasaray. The Madrid, with a goal of Kroos, won and are already 21 games without knowing defeat with 15 wins and six draws (46 goals in favor and 9 against), a 'record' streak and worked from the defense. The numbers confirm it.

Whites, with 13 goals conceded in 22 league days, they turn into the Madrid least thrashed in the history of LaLiga at this point in the championship. The merit begins on the bench and continues on the 'green' hand of Courtois, who has forgotten the nightmare of last season and is excellent, and the rest of the players. (DC News: the rotation that Zidane poses for the Copa del Rey)

Varane and Ramos they have recovered their best level and do not know the defeat this season when they play together (they were separately in Mallorca and Paris), Carvajal still going from less to more while Mendy It is a separate case. The French side, a wall behind and increasingly with an offensive presence, has been ‘charged’ to Marcelo and the Madrid takes 715 minutes without receiving goal When he is in the field.

Casemiro, that this season does not have a natural replacement in the squad, it is playing practically everything, it maintains regularity and, ‘for more inri’, it is successful from face to door. Valverde He has earned the label of indisputable and his presence seems fundamental to the Madrid, which notices and pays dearly in energy and physical deployment when the Uruguayan is not.

Further, Kroos, the white engine; Y Benzema, ‘9’, are the leaders of the pressure on the exit of the opponent's ball, while players like Modric, Isco and Lucas Vázquez They are also emptied to help back every time it is on the ‘green’. Others like Vinicius and Rodrygo They are showing a lot of commitment in defense and cannot put a single ‘but’. Everyone from Zidane to Benzema, are important for the Madrid Go at cruising speed.