Santander League: Real Madrid, between the assault on the leadership and the panic to ruin the season | LaLiga Santander 2019

A win will give them leadership and momentum for Manchester. The defeat will complete a black week that left Zidane touched

• Setin
  

  “For Madrid it is a vital game”
  

Sorprendi yesterday orlo in the mouth of the coach of Barcelona, accustomed in recent times to the low tone of Valverde in the previews of the classics, always away from words with a sharp edge. Quique Setin, which has made the speech an important part of his professional career, recover a trick from the press room: put pressure on the opposite bench. It is vital for them, seal when summarizing the significance of the game.

The recovered league leadership seems to have given confidence to the coach, rookie in the great Spanish match. Nor can he defeat a defeat – he is supposed to imagine it – although he must recognize his tino when calibrating the weight of a local traspis. He has much more to lose today Real Madrid than your team

That vertigo, that of seeing five points this midnight plus the particular goal average (that is, six real points), threatens all Zinedine Zidane. The truth is that neither recent data against Bara in Bernabu nor the latest results, both in the League and in the Champions, breathe an overflowing optimism to Real Madrid. The two consecutive stumbling blocks, with Celta and Levante, took him out of the head of the table; and every one in the Champions League, on Wednesday, against Manchester City removed the worst memories of last season. Then, also in a week, the season was ruined without solution, linking defeats with the Catalans and Ajax.

Given all this charge of negativity, Zidane Presents today's duel as a great opportunity to clear clouds. If Setin is right in the previous trial about the importance of the shock to his rival, the French is right to change the fear for the opportunity; the panic to failure for hope.

In just 90 minutes, theirs can redirect the course, with an always tasty leadership and the strength of the psychological blow that a triumph in the classic has. For this, Madrid has no choice but to recover the formula that made it take off in autumn, taking a title along the way (the Super Cup) and demonstrating to Bara that he can dispute the League.

His best version

He needs to retrace his steps to reactivate the solidarity ways, those of defensive rigor and the control of the center of the field. The one of the pressure after loss (as in the goal to the City) and the seriousness back. That of the goalkeeper to zero as life insurance, in the absence of better days in attack. A tactical and sometimes unattractive version, but effective if all the pieces fulfill their mission (Benzema puts them in, Casemiro does not lose them, Ramos wins the marks …). A Madrid that might not be for large European companies, but that serves to fight for the Braithwaite Barcelona League

The curious signing can appear tonight as a starter in the Bernabu, looking for Setin of more offensive nerve. The emergency agitator piece is kept by Zidane on the bench, called Mariano by surprise yesterday, at Luka Jovic's place. Any route will be worth it to Madrid today if it helps you knock down a Bara who, without wearing his best suit, arrives with the player who has most frightened Chamartn in the history of the club.

The extramotivation of Messi It is as safe as the full stadium of La Castellana. In recent classics, the Argentine has not needed to give a recital to have Madrid breathless throughout the game. Overcome that complex to the great ogre, as the whites have done lately in the Camp Nou, is another of the missions of Zidane, if you do not want your team to be half grogui at the opening of March and that on Monday you start questioning your future.

The recipe for the classic is heart, head and unity, he said looking at the fan, which expects more minimal than excessive pressure, as has happened in previous commitments. In his eleven, Kroos must appear again, after his striking absence before the City.