The Real Madrid will face this Thursday the Real society in the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey, at 7:00 p.m. in the Santiago Bernabeu. The Basques already put complicated things in the game of League, when they came forward through a goal of Willian José, but finally the whites managed to take all three points.
The Real It is a template that is placed on the grass, always, with the intention of overcoming lines above any other purpose. It is a team that likes direct football, almost as a basic principle that its players have injected into the head. Basically all his football is sustained in breaking lines with a single in-depth pass, and unusually ever looking to play outside, only if the opponent is defensively very solid to block vertical and diagonal passes.
The interiors, Odegaard and Merino, always behind the two midfielders, lowering one of them to defend if they do not locate the space to give the pass. When one of the interiors defends and receives surpassing the mark of the rival midfielders, it is the other interior who is responsible for doing the midfielder work organizing the game to associate with the center forward or the end of the other band. (Zidane has prepared a special marking against Odegaard)
Zinedine Zidane You should take note of this, as tomorrow's game is also expected to be a tough tactical confrontation where each player will have to be well-aware of the function they order.