El Clásico removes coaches

Zidane appears at the Camp Nou under the spotlight after the traumatic defeats suffered by Madrid against Cádiz and Shakhtar in Valdebebas, which have undermined part of the trust placed in the French. A danger if you use the newspaper library. Face Barça walking on the wire has supposed serious goring to several of the last Real Madrid coaches who arrived at the Clásico between doubts. Some mortals, like the one that bled Lopetegui, and others that were deferred sentences, like the one that sank Benítez or left Solari touched, whom only the Champions League could save but who was shipwrecked. Curiously, it was Zidane who replaced these last two …

In 2003-04, Queiroz's Real Madrid received Barça at the Bernabéu in full collapse. The defeat in the Cup final against Zaragoza, with that goal by Galletti, triggered a crisis for the Whites: they lost in the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Monaco and were left, just a few days later, without options in LaLiga. Those of Queiroz faced that Clásico second, tied at 70 points with Valencia, leader. But the goals of Kluivert and Xavi traced the goal of Solari and Barça attacked Chamartín. That setback left Queiroz and Madrid groggy, who lost the four remaining league games and finished fourth, seven points behind champion Valencia. This failure ended Queiroz out of Madrid and an earthquake on the bench: Camacho, García Remón, Luxemburg, López Caro …

Luxembourg and the ovation of the Bernabéu to Ronaldinho

The first two were short-lived. Camacho only spent 117 days on the bench and left because he did not feel comfortable at the club (he did not face Barça) and García Remón, somewhat less (101), although his defeat at the Camp Nou (3-0), on the 20th November 2004, it was not his highlight. He was fired at Christmas and in his place Florentino signed Luxembourg. A year later (November 19, 2005), the Brazilian coach experienced (and suffered) in his flesh one of the images that have been recorded in football history: the Bernabéu applauding Ronaldinho after scoring two goals and starring in a show that pulverized Madrid. That disaster left Luxa 'headdress of death' (“If I have to go, I'll go,” he said). He was fired two days later … He beat Getafe but a strong discussion with Florentino to replace Ronaldo ended up ejecting him from the bench.

The classics have been determinants a when deciding the the coach's future at Real Madrid in the last two decades. Even before disputed. It happened to Schuster. The German was fired a few days after a Barça-Madrid for declaring after falling 3-4 against Sevilla that “it seems impossible to me that we can beat Barça on Saturday at the Camp Nou.” That struck him down. He was replaced by Juande Ramos, who had little time to prepare his debut against the Catalans (fell 2-0). Pedro Muñoz's team managed to reactivate the team, which accumulated 17 victories and a draw in the league, against Atlético de Madrid. No less than 52 points out of 54 possible. Madrid reached the Clásico in the second round at the Bernabéu four points behind Barça, but Guardiola's men left the whites in ruins and that burned Juande and any option of continuity. Madrid let go and lost the last four league games. Barça, meanwhile, was walking towards the Sextete …

Benítez, Lopetegui and Solari

The last coaches who suffered the rigors of the Classic were Benítez, Lopetegui and Solari. Although each case was different. In 2015, Madrid opted for Rafa's tough and tactical profile to replace Ancelotti, but after the good harmony with the Italian the dressing room never connected with him. The team was out of order, third in the League and five points behind Barça, and eliminated from the Cup after the farce with Cheryshev. However, what sentenced him was the 0-4 of the Clásico at the Bernabéu and the shouts of “Florentino, resign!”. That crisis ended with a settlement and the arrival of Zidane, which was a mana of nine titles (three Champions in a row).

But Zizou he hit the scared in May 2018 and Florentino made a move by hiring Lopetegui, then Spanish coach, three days before Spain's premiere at the World Cup in Russia. That caused an earthquake that ended Julen out of the National Team. The challenge he took on was enormous, as he not only relieved the most successful coach in the recent history of Madrid, but also took on a team that was left without Cristiano, the club's historical top scorer. The Lopetegui era started losing the European Super Cup against Atlético and, Although the start of the League and the Champions League was exciting, Madrid went into crisis and on October 28, 2018, only four and a half months after starting his stage as a white coach, he was dismissed after a 5-1 at Camp Nou. The Classic was his sentence.

Replaced him Solari, which was also going to be shorn from the Classic. In four days, those that elapsed between February 27, 2019 and March 2, Barça knocked down Madrid in the Cup semis (0-3) and gave a final blow to LaLiga (0-1). Solari was very touched. He definitively sank days later, after a 1-4 by Ajax that left him out of the Champions League and with the team out of any title option in March. He was fired and in his place Zidane returned, who in a year and a half managed to raise the team again until he won the last league. However, Madrid have returned to their old ways and there are already fingers pointing to the bench just when it appears on the scene in Classic …