The pink glasses to Real Madrid

Pink doesn't suit Real Madrid. Not so much for an aesthetic issue, which is totally debatable, as a practice: for now, three games with the second kit and three defeats. Match in which Madrid jumps onto the grass with their striking substitute shirt, a match in which they go home defeated. For whites, pink looks like jinx.

The question began, in fact, last year: Real Madrid played the second leg of the round of 16 of the Champions League 2019-20 with a kit from this season; As it was already launched, the club considered it a good opportunity to show off the new design and thus advance its promotional tasks. By dressing Manchester City in light blue and white, Madrid had to leave safely with a kit other than white, and in that battle the rose prevailed in front of the third, a mixture of black and gray with pink details.

The result is well known: defeat at the Etihad Stadium by 2-1 with two important errors by Varane and Madrid, eliminated for the second consecutive year of the Champions League in the round of 16. Zidane's team had been proclaimed League champion a few weeks before and that setback, anticipated by the 1-2 in the first leg at the Bernabéu, led to a poor closing of a satisfactory course, with two titles (the Super Cup was also won from Spain).

But the new season has not brought better feelings of pink: two games, two defeats. First, against Cádiz in Valdebebas, 0-1, with Madrid wearing pink despite playing at home on World Breast Cancer Day, which took place two days later. And the last example, the collapse of Valencia (4-1), with three penalties against and with Madrid giving up three points of their advantage with Barcelona.

With the third kit, better

Interestingly, tohe Real Madrid has done much better with the third kit than with the second. He has played two games so far in black, the first two he played in this 2020-21 League: 0-0 at the home of Real Sociedad and triumph 2-3 against Betis at Villamarín. They were not the best games for a Madrid that was starting engines at that time, but at least the results were minimally accompanied.

Madrid has been including one of a striking color among its kits every year for commercial reasons (these kits are very well received by the fans and white fans outside of Spain). Last year we opted for green, the previous one for red, in 2017-18 for a mixture of blues and in 2016-17, for a purple that does have a great relationship with white history (it has always been the second color with which Madrid was associated after white).

Madrid had not opted for pink since the 2014-15 season, the second with Carlo Ancelotti on the bench and bad memories: they won the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup, but the team collapsed in the final stretch of the season and ended up losing both the League and the Champions League; both tournaments, along with the Cup, were for Barcelona, ​​their second treble in a few years. Madrid barely wore the pink (the black kit was used much more) twice, with mixed results: 4-2 defeat at Anoeta against Real and 2-2 win at home to Schalke 04.