Today's (9:00 pm, Movistar LaLiga) is a unequal mourning for the needs of Leganés, all, and Madrid, none, but even so the whites will come to Butarque with various incentives: achieving full post-confinement, that 11 of 11 that Zidane requested; fight for Pichichi de Benzema (with 21 goals, points to Messi 23); or add Zizou's 100th victory in the League. The coach faces the challenge with exceptional numbers in the tournament: in 144 days he has registered 99 wins (68%), 28 draws (19%) and only 17 defeats (13%).
Interestingly, his best and worst percentages are from the two mini-leagues he had led before this summer. In the first, upon taking office in 2015-16: he won 85% of the matches, with a comeback that was never consummated against Barça, who celebrated the title by one point. In the second, when returning last year, In 2018-19, he came off a disappointing 45% win. In this 2019-20 he looks 70%, for 22% draws and 8% defeats.
In this trajectory in which he has added two trophies (2017 and 2020), its biggest victims have been Real Sociedad and Eibar, with seven wins in eight matches. They have also been good five teams against which he has made plenary sessions: Alavés and Deportivo (six), Granada (five), Osasuna (four), Sporting (three) and Huesca (one). By cons, Those who have resisted him the most have been Betis (three defeats), Barça (two), Seville (two) and Valencia (two). However, Leganés, his rival tonight, has beaten him five times and tied on another.