Madrid seeks to rearm after arriving ‘stiff’ at the break due to the coronavirus

This Monday marks the 93rd day of Real Madrid's last game before LaLiga was paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic with 11 days yet to be held. The team of Zinedine Zidane leadership was left in Seville after losing with justice Real Betis (2-1), with a goal from exazulgrana Cristian Tello in the 82nd minute. The defeat allowed the Barca, who had expired the day before from a penalty kick and had a hard time Real society at the Camp Nou (1-0), he will lead the table with a two-point advantage over the meringues.

Real Madrid arrived at Benito Villamarín after being awarded just one week before the Bernabéu Classic in front of the newcomer outfit Quique Setién (2-0). However, in the last month before the break by COVID-19, the whites reaped a series of negative results in League, Cup and Champions that made them stagger.

Between February 6 and March 8, 2020, Zidane's team disputed seven official meetings with a balance of four defeats, a draw and two wins. The blows were in the Cup against the Real Sociedad (3-4), the I raised in League (1-0), the Manchester City in Champions (1-2) and the Real Betis again in the domestic championship (2-1). The tie was also in the League against Celtic at the Bernabéu (2-2) and the only two wins were recorded in Pamplona against Osasuna (1-4) and the mentioned Real Madrid-Barça (2-0).

It was very painful for the white team to be eliminated in early February in the Copa del Rey, after Real Sociedad reaped a spectacular 3-4 at the Madrid coliseum in which it shone with its own light Martin Odegaard, The young Norwegian that Real Blanco has on loan in the San Sebastian box, and who opened a marker. Isak, with a doublet, and Mikel Merino They finished certifying a win in the brilliant way of the Imanol Sheriff until the end, in which they must face the Athletic at a date yet to determine because of the coronavirus crisis.

In the Champions League, the Manchester City by Pep Guardiola He also hit the Bernabéu, in the first leg of the round of 16 of the Champions, and left the Zidane set on the edge of the KO in your favorite competition. Isco he overtook the whites by half an hour to go, but two goals from the English in just five minutes, the first in charge of Gabriel Jesus and the second of From Bruyne, by transforming a penalty, they certified the comeback of the ‘citizens’.

The meeting back in the Etihad Stadium It is now pending to be held on August 7, according to the plans of the UEFA, a time that in theory should play in favor of the whites since the decisive duel could be played behind closed doors and more than enough time will have passed for the moral and physical rearmament of the meringues in order to overcome a tie that is still very complicated for those of Zizou, despite the fact that they will already have the desired ones Eden Hazard and Marco Asensio.