Closing one year and opening another is a more symbolic act than anything else. And there is nothing more symbolic than a victory. So that's what the Real
Madrid, win tonight at Elche at Martinez Valero (9:30 pm / Movistar LaLiga) and leave behind a complicated 2020 personally and not so dark professionally, since it began with the Spanish Super Cup, continued it with the League and can close it by signing its seventh consecutive victory.
For it, Zidane He will be able to count on his entire squad with the exception of the injured Rodrygo and it is expected that the Frenchman, already away from the rotations that made him gain a reputation as a good coach, will bet on the eleven with the highest possible start. The return of Luka
Modric after a muscular overload and the already confirmed and 'reconfirmed' return of Hazard, so they allow it. Though Zidane some trick is always kept.
The doubt then resides in whether he will play with the trident in attack formed by the Belgian, Benzema and Asensio, or will reinforce the center of the field with the entry of Fede
Valverde leaving room for only two forwards.
A reliable Madrid
Be that as it may, the intention of the Real
Madrid it does not go beyond continuing to be the reliable team of recent weeks to which luck has smiled, sometimes also the VAR, but to which, of course, its pragmatic football has led him to retake the pulse for the League against the Atlético de Madrid. He has not lost since he did it in front of Shakhtar last December 2 (2-0) and, since then, everything counts for victories (6), with 13 goals in favor and only two against. Zidane he has managed, through a fixed block, to strengthen his team and restore its rocky and effective condition in equal parts.
Madrid is already in Alicante
A combative Elche
He Elche, for its part, will not be able to count on Jorge Almiron. The Argentine coach has tested positive again in PCR tests to which he has been subjected, so he will not be able to sit on the bench in the game against Real Madrid.
Almiron He already tested positive last week, in the previous match against Osasuna, so he could not lead the Elche team from the band in that meeting. His assistant, Jesús Muñoz, will be in charge of educating the franjiverdes today, who still remember their defeat against Madrid in the Martinez Valero, of the 2013/14 season, when the Whites took the victory in the last breath after a non-existent penalty on Pepe that turned into a goal Cristiano Ronaldo.
Now, with the goal of salvation in mind, the illicit they want to at least fight to score after accumulating more than two months without winning a league game.