Today we will see a real match between Real Madrid and Athletic from Valdebebas, in what will be a day ahead of the calendar due to the Spanish Super Cup in which the two teams plus Barcelona and Real Sociedad will participate, who will also play their day tomorrow advanced.
You never know when it is good to play against one of the greats of the League. Normally it is preferred that they are the first games because they have not yet caught the proper form or sufficient pace. Or when the calendar squeezes them for European commitments and they focus a lot on those goals. The truth is that playing against good players does not matter when you do it, you always have to be at the best level to compete well. We will see it tonight.
Right now the meringues seem to be coming out of a mini crisis of those that the press likes to talk so much about. It seems that they are coming out of a slump in results and that in the last games they have solved their commitments with good marks. Ranked first in the group stage in the Champions League and beating Atlético without conceding a goal.
Important game in addition to being a classic for not distancing itself from the top of the classification and cutting three vital points from the Madrid rival. In game and results it is clear that the Whites are with the arrow up and the moment of visiting them will force Athletic to do many things well. For Valdebebas they are with confidence through the roof and Zidane seems to have found his ideal team.
You will have to move a piece since it will be missing Casemiro by penalty. An important loss in the center of the field for the work that unfolds and because lately he is also able to score as he did in the last game. Valverde It may be one of the options that you can consider for the medullary together with Modric, otherwise few movements are expected in the other positions.
On the red and white side, if the lions come up in any field, it is in the merengue fiefdom. They already demonstrated it the previous year scratching a tie to zero. We will see if in the sports city they have at least the same reward as in the Bernabéu.
It is a classic of the league that promises. Madrid meeting and going through a good time and Athletic in search of tranquility and the boost of morale that would win one of the contenders for the title.
The bad thing for visitors is that if they do not add anything, life begins to complicate and the calendar has no respite. They have great teams in the following matches and they are going to force the rojiblancos to give their maximum in the coming weeks. They seem very demanding. It's time to row against the tide, all on the boat and all together.