The collective short-circuit at Mestalla can take an even greater toll on Real Madrid when they return from intermission for the national team matches. A calendar comes to him that is an ordeal on the table. Of his next five games, which he has to play in just two weeks, four will be away from Di Stéfano. The transition from November to December is a wall.
Starting in La Cerámica against this Villarreal launched by Emery (21-N) then he will have to visit four days later, this time to an Inter who sees the game for life or death, on the 28th if he stops and dines in Valdebebas against Alavés before hitting the road again: on December 1 in Donetsk to a party in Ukraine that can be a trap and four days after that, an old special grade mountain pass, the Pizjuán.
Madrid has been complaining about fatigue (Zidane, after the 0-1 of Cádiz), of lack of trust (Zidane, after Shakhtar's 2-3) or directly has no explanation, except for the bad luck to which Courtois alluded to excuse the Mestalla, or the complaints about the controversial arbitration of Gil Manzano and the VAR and the three penalties in Valencia.
Zidane, at a time from 3-2 to Inter in the Champions League.
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The future in the Champions is at stake
Although the 3-2 at Inter cleared many clouds, Madrid will play its future in the Champions League in six days and both times at home, although now there is no environmental pressure. Conte warned in Madrid that they are not considered eliminated and will raise an all or nothing. And if the coronavirus-shattered Shakhtar was able to win the Di Stéfano, it doesn't have to be any less dangerous now, despite the surprise effect wearing off. Right now has advantage for him goal average with Madrid, this data is not trivial.
The end of the effort will be the Pizjuán, traditional bone, with Lopetegui (and what that continues to entail) and a well-known guy in Valdebebas, Oscar Rodriguez, sold last summer to the Sevilla club for 15 million euros. Seville will be, for better or for worse, the culmination of two weeks of vertigo. A much tougher schedule and just the opposite of the one he faced in November last year after the same FIFA break. Then Madrid had four games and three were at the Bernabéu: it solved in the League the clash against Real Sociedad (3-1), Espanyol (2-0) and the visit of PSG (a 2-2 that closed the pass to eighth) and only traveled to Mendizorroza, where he was victorious (1-2). Now it will be very different.