“Hail, CeaseThose who are going to die greet you ”. This phrase is attributed to gladiators before the Emperor before fighting to the death, although in fact it was only pronounced once, before Claudio in 52 B.C. In the Colosseum in Rome, the arena was spattered with blood duels against the wildest beasts and among the best gladiators before thousands of sick people. La Real will jump to 22 hours today to another stage, the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez and could proclaim that of: “Those who are going to resuscitate, greet you.” What is evident is that they are going to have to be 11 gladiators before the battalion of fierce soldiers that is Getafe. The txuri urdin team is urged a victory to reactivate the enthusiasm of their parish and their options to qualify for Europe after having added a single point of 12 in the four games after the break due to the pandemic. At midnight on Monday it will be known if the Imanol They exit through the triumphal door or continue to lie on the sand, covered in blood.
The numbers of Getafe – Real Sociedad
The meeting is decisive for the two contenders in their fight to get a European place, a real duel to the death. It is even more decisive for Real, who has two fewer points and a new defeat would leave him with a five-point disadvantage plus the particular goalaverage, which is already favorable to Getafe since the first round meeting in Anoeta (1-2). The txuri urdin will remain seventh even if they lose, but falling defeated would mean having the sixth to four points.
The two worst teams at the top of the table will be placed face to face after the 91-day break due to the coronavirus. La Real arrives with the heavy backpack of its most negative streak with Imanol, three defeats in a row, while the Azulones have tied three and lost one of their four duels. They really have five without winning. Confinement made both of them shoot. The needs are obvious. They had to stop in March, slapping each other for fourth place, in full competition for the Champions League, and two weeks later that aspiration seems like a dream of a spring night. Of course, if the winner is Getafe, he will be placed two points from Sevilla and if Real does, four.
Llorente's obligatory change
The Royal must set a turning point, stop the bleeding. Imanol also does not have excessive margin in his squad to start revolutions and look for a shock, so not too many changes are expected. You need to get your cracks back, especially Odegaard, Oyarzabal and Merino, very blurred since the league restart. It has its best elements for this decisive event and loses Llorente by sanction, which will be replaced by an unfairly set aside You
Normand in the center of the rear. The injured payroll is already out of memory: Illarra, Barrenetxea, Guevara and Sangalli. It is possible that Isak recover, as before Madrid, the position of battering ram and all are entrusted to the inspiration of Januzaj, the only lucid. For the first time in these weeks, Imanol did not give the call yesterday.
Perhaps it is so as not to give even a hint to one of his lashes, José Bordalás, Getafe technician and specialist in stealing the personality from the Real and disarming it until it became a vulgar troop. The Madrid team has beaten Real five of their last six duels. It is the classic wall against which the Royal collides; press hard up, is aggressive in duels and looks for the enemy's fault until it is found.
Bordalás loses Djené by sanction and for the center of the rear it only has Etxeita and Chema, who already scored two goals for Real with Levante. They are suffering in the defense of the stopped ball. They have flown Deyverson and Kenedy by contract.
It is time to resurrect. The bullets are running out.