The Classic did not break anything

Three weeks after the Clásico, Madrid is still in top form. The heavy defeat against the azulgrana has not broken anything (except the painful result against Xavi’s men) in the Madrid ecosystem. Since then, The Whites have ended their three consecutive games with victories: they defeated Celta in Vigo, swept Chelsea away at Stamford Bridge (probably the Whites’ best game so far this season) and on their return to the Bernabéu after the debacle against the Barcelona players, solved his meeting with Getafe with a comfortable victory, with seven goals for and only two against in this section. The truth is that, of the last eight league games, the whites only lost to the azulgrana and we must remember that they appeared at that meeting with two major absences: Karim Benzema and Ferland Mendy. Two key players in Ancelotti’s scheme and whose absence was seriously noted.

It was the Italian coach himself at the press conference after the victory against Getafe who explained that the team has not changed at all since last March 20: “We haven’t lost our heads after the swim against Barcelona. We have remained balanced. We had an advantage and we must manage this advantage. This could be a cheating party after the Champions League, you leave a little physical. We were well placed, pressing after the loss and everything went well”.

The Reggiolo coach wanted to reassure the Real Madrid environment about the setback on March 20: “I haven’t planned the game well. Sometimes it succeeds, other times it fails. Today I failed. But I don’t do drama. We are very sorry, but we have to continue and prepare well for the next few weeks. We have to think that we have a nine point advantage over the second. With the break (of national teams) we have time to digest this defeat. It has sunk us a lot, but we have to be calm. Now I have time to recover my energy and prepare well for the next two months of the season”, he explained in the Press Room on March 20. And with work, perseverance and perseverance he has achieved it.

The squad has understood the message: they are only 13 points away from winning a new League title, number 35. Now he faces a tough schedule: on Sunday he faces Sevilla (9:00 p.m.) at the Sánchez Pizjuán. Just three days later he will travel to Pamplona to face Osasuna, one of the teams that has managed to get a beneficial point in his visit to the Bernabéu. Later it will be Espanyol who will be present at the Coliseum de la Castellana. It will be in this section, together with the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, when he accelerates in the conquest of the league victory. The defeat against Barcelona was an accident. Nothing was broken within the Madrid team…