The worst fears of Real Madrid were confirmed on saturday night in El Sadar. Frozen field, strange and difficult game, icy environment with which it was difficult to enter the game … It was a perfect storm of adversity that it ended in a tie. Including what happened the day before, in which the squad was forced to be locked in a plane for four hours already on the tracks of Barajas to then take off in the middle of the blizzard and arrive in Pamplona at 00:00 hours. As was logical, after the tie the protagonists, especially Zidane and Courtois, they openly charged against LaLiga.
“The game should not have been played”, He pointed out with a very serious gesture, much more than the usual one, the French coach. “This is not a football match, we did not see a football match. Playing like this is very difficult, but in the end they have made the decision to play. Everyone in the squad is upset, but I speak because I am the coach.” Courtois was much more forceful: “We are human, not a show that you always have to play. We are not puppets. We have arrived at the stadium by a road full of snow. We have to look out for people's safety, we also have family. It is unfortunate what LaLiga has done “.
With everything, Employer sources point out to this newspaper that Real Madrid did not officially request the postponement of the meeting at any time. The position of the club it is very different and already known. I would have preferred the meeting to be suspended beforehand, which contradicts what has been slipped by LaLiga, or, in the worst case, that it had been played at noon on Saturday, when the snowstorm that fell on Pamplona was giving its first blows. At night, at nine o'clock, Madrid's worst forecasts were confirmed: The Sadar became a kind of trap beyond the team not finding the mechanisms to get out of it. Regarding the time change, LaLiga hides itself in that it was impossible because of international television broadcasts.
The Madrid expedition had to stay after the draw, in addition, in the concentration hotel in Pamplona licking their wounds. Barajas airport has announced its closure until Sunday afternoon, at least And beyond that circumstance, it is not clear that transport from the airport itself to the soccer players' homes is feasible, since the abundant snow that has fallen in Madrid will turn into dangerous ice in the next few hours. The white leaders were even considering the possibility of Madrid flying directly to Malaga, where next Thursday he has to dispute the semi-final of the Super Cup against Athletic, but this winger is unlikely.