La Real plays on Sunday against Alavés and wants to return to the path of triumphs after three consecutive draws, those of the Europa League against AZ Alkmaar and Rijeka and the league against Villarreal. But after what happened last Thursday, he also has an eye on the final game of the Europa League against Naples at the Diego
Armando
Maradona.
What happens there is irreversible. He is the 'bogeyman' of the group, he plays at home and will want to honor the God of football, who will give his stadium its name from next Thursday, something that has been official since yesterday. But surely the team of Gen
n
ring
Gattuso he would like to run into any other rival who was not a Real leader in the First Division and who gave him a hard time in Anoeta.
The royalists are loading themselves with reasons to go to the Diego
Armando
Maradona convinced to pass. One of them is that, when it has had to respond in decisive matches, the Real de Imanol It has done so in this year 2020, namely: Bernabéu, Miranda, Villarreal and Metropolitano, where Real obtained the point it needed to qualify for the Europa League.
Everything that happens in the next league games -Alavés, Eibar, Barcelona, Atlético …- can be reversed and compensated in the following games, but next Thursday in Naples is the first final of the year. And the royalists have high hopes for this competition.
1: La Real is being a hurricane away from home
The reliability that the Real has demonstrated away from home is beyond doubt, as shown by its results. This season he has taken 17 points out of 21 at home. His seven meetings between the League and Europa League away from Anoeta have resulted in five wins and two draws, 13 goals for and two against. Counting last season, there are already 10 games without losing away from home.
2: It can be worth until the defeat in Naples
Another asset that Real has is that it depends on itself. If he wins, as he has done in nine of his 16 games this season, he will pass as first. But it may be necessary to defeat it. It can be classified even losing, if Rijeka defeats AZ Alkmaar on their court, with an audience, something that does not seem unreasonable. Just matching the result of the tulips is enough.
3: Bermabéu in the Cup, the unforgettable reference
La Real can always invoke the spirit of the Bernabéu. He had it more difficult in February, having to beat Madrid in his court in a single match in the eighth of the Cup and he did it with brilliance, epic and suffering at the end and a Isak untied. In Naples it may not be necessary to win and will play without the pressure of the public against. AZ has already conquered San Paolo, now Diego Armando Maradona.
4: Napoli have not been so superior to Real and AZ
Napoli was called to be the undisputed leader of this group, due to its potential, its budget of around 300 million euros (triple that of Real) and its recent Champions League appearances. 70 million has been spent on a single player: Osimhen. But he has only achieved one point out of six against AZ and beat Real after being subdued and with a lucky goal from Politano.
5: There are European wounds still to be closed
If the Real is putting so much passion in this competition and is using its best elements, it is, among other things, because it wants to heal the wounds it has open from its last participations. Lyon and that qualification for the Champions League is the last gratifying memory. That Champions League with one point and the eliminations of Krasnodar and Salzburg still hurt.