No one from within dares to say it in public yet because of the gaff, but Madrid, with its full seven wins, already grab the League by one handle. If he does not stray from the path, he will shortly certify a title in which they have always trusted the locker room, which he began to order during confinement and which is explained from five keys.
The team physicist
Madrid did not take the quarantine, far from it, as half-vacations. Zidane was very clear about it with his players, who had a common and individualized task of Dupont at all times. Some even did overtime with professionals they trusted. And all this was noted in the return to training and at the moment of truth: he has barely been disconnected and has kept up the pace until the final whistle, an effort especially necessary due to the narrowness of the scoreboard on each day.
Adaptation to the new football
It would seem that Madrid He has not noticed the absence of his own and others' public or, if he has, it has been for the good. At home, the rush that has arisen when he is not in command from start to finish and has not had to go through rival pressure has been avoided: There are four victories at Di Stéfano and three away. It has also adapted to the possibility of the five changes without having been a staple resource to measure and vary the direction of matches, as against Getafe, when the innings of Fede, Rodrygo and Asensio gave one more gear to reach 1-0. The sequence of substitutions has been as follows: 5-2-5-5-2-5-4
The wardrobe
It influences it the variety of options that Zidane has, So much so that he has not suffered a handicap of major injuries such as those of Jovic, theoretical substitute for a demanded Benzema, Lucas Vázquez, one of his trusted men, or Nacho, the boy for everything. The Frenchman has aligned 23 of the 25 of his staff; only Areola remain, in the shadow of a giant Courtois, and himself Nacho, who has already left the infirmary.
The wall
With Courtois As a proper name, Madrid has begun to require all the expressions of these occasions: “Put the lock”, “put the padlock” … The Belgian, like an arrow towards his third Zamora, the first as a Real Madrid player, has added 5 doors to zero (takes 20 this course) and he has conceded only two goals in these seven games. Well wrapped by a defense and a cohesive midfield despite the dance of pieces, and by attackers in solidarity mode For running backwards, reliability is the hallmark of this success. “It is our strength. What we are demonstrating is our strength and, above all, our balance. When we lose the ball, we all defend, “claimed Zidane in San Mamés.
The profitability of goals
This Madrid scores little but when it does, it really does. He has held 13 in 7 meetings, which does not give him to reach or exceed a more usual average in his records like the two goals per game. But you haven't needed it either: He has added 12 of the 21 points for the minimum: 1-2 (Real Sociedad), 0-1 (Espanyol), 1-0 (Getafe) and 0-1 (Athletic). Special mention requires the passage to the front of Ramos, pichichi with five targets in this period, and the state of thanks of Benzema, with three.