Madrid 'plays' the Bundesliga

Germany is the first major league to launch into the ring after the break due to the Covid-19. The Bundesliga returns today and Real Madrid has interests at stake. An eye on Valdebebas and another there. Why Achraf He will return today against Schalke (15:30) for a marathon of matches with Borussia. It remains to be seen, furthermore, whether Odriozola manages to overcome his currently unsuccessful loan at Bayern. And the club will follow two on the list of the purchase: Haaland (Achraf's partner in Dortmund) and Upamecan (Leipzig) …

The most immediate case to monitor is Achraf. The idea of ​​the Bundesliga is to finish the competition on June 27 and 28 to avoid conflicts with FIFA by footballers who end their contract or their transfers on June 30. The Spanish-Moroccan from Madrid would be in this last case. There will be, except that the Bundesliga stops again, no clash between the Madrid entity and Borussia. Another thing is Achraf's physique. It is indisputable for Lucien Favre and the yellow team is playing for the title, it is only four points from the leader Bayern. There are nine days left and they will have to be compressed in just 49 days. Everything, bearing in mind that Achraf and his companions could not train under conditions (most of the time it has been done in small groups) and the heat comes as an added enemy. As if that were not enough, the first game 'postcoronavirus' It will be against Schalke, Rühr's hot derby. There is no possibility to reserve efforts. The potential risk of injury is greatly increased and there are studies in France that believe that from the second match, the possibility of falling injured will multiply by six …

If you keep the seen until the break, Odriozola will not be so demanded. Since he went on loan to Munich in January, he has only had 70 minutes in ten games. Bayern plays tomorrow in Berlin against Union (6:00 p.m.)

Haaland and Upamecano, in the magnifying glass

Madrid will observe what happens to a footballer who is his and with two who, perhaps, could be in the near future. Haaland and Upamecan. Norwegian is the nine that he likes best in the white entity and the possibility of going for him is on the table, sooner or later. With him, it is to see if the break has affected his enormous goalscoring capacity (40 goals in 33 games this season) and remains in progress. He is a 19 year old player braked just when it was the nine most fit in Europe.

Regarding Upamecano, the central defender that Zidane likes, the time to make decisions will be this summer. Madrid is immersed in a three game with Bayern and Leipzig, the player's owner, who gains ground every day that passes to keep him there for at least one more year. Own Upa He is focused on finishing the season before facing resolution about his future. But to begin with, Zidane will be able to see how he returns to the competition this Saturday in a comfortable game at home against Freiburg (3:30 p.m.). Red Bull Leipzig have not yet said their last word. He is third and dreams of a sorpasso in the Bundesliga …

Turn also for exmadridistas: Mascarell, Torró, Lienhart …

The German championship returns and contains more extra incentives for Madrid fans. There are five footballers who went through Factory white that boots are also put on again in official matches: Omar Mascarell with Schalke (precisely to measure the Borussia of Achraf and Haaland), Lucas Torró (Eintracht), the Hungarian Szalai (Mainz)the Austrian Lienhart (Freiburg) and Relu, friend and colleague of Achraf who is straddling the Borussia Dortmund first team and the yellow team. Eintracht de Torró plays today against Mönchengladbach (6:30 p.m.), Mainz de Szalai will go to Cologne tomorrow (3:30 p.m.) while Lienhart, center-back, will have a duel with Upamecano.

They are part of the contingent of 83 footballers raised in the Madrid team who are now in the European leagues. The Bundesliga has been opening to Madrid with relish. In recent years it has served as a test bench for young people with a great future (Carvajal, Vallejo …) who returned to Chamartín, which the club is now planning with Achraf, or simply signing them and leaving money in the Madrid coffers. This was the case of the aforementioned Mascarell (between the two sales, to Eintracht and Schalke, Madrid stayed € 7M), Torró (€ 1.7M), Szalai (€ 2M) and Lienhart (€ 2.5M). Before they, for example, are Joselu, who went to Hoffenheim for € 6M, and in 2004 one of the club's most promising midfielders, Diego Lion, went from Real Madrid B to Arminia Bielefeld although he did not manage to succeed. He was a pioneer in this Bundesmadrid.