Spanish League – Real MadridTOWhites play at the Bernabu in four days the Champions League and
ANDl Real Madrid starts its ‘fantastic’ week, a week in which many of its options are played to win so muchthe Championslike the league. The great duels arrive where the white team should not fail if they want to take a giant step inboth competitions.
Before the two main courses, whites must save another stumbling block in the League. After the serious stumble at home against Celta, Real Madrid plays this Saturday February 22 against Levante in the Ciutat de Valencia. Zidane’s are only worththe victory,since a draw will mean the option that Barcelona will pass on the table, which will be a real blow.
After this duel against Levante, comesthe real examthat Zidane will suffer at the Bernabu, an exam that, without a doubt, will mark the rest of the season either for good … or for worse. First, on Wednesday, February 26, Real Madrid receives Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City stadium in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16.
Logically, it is difficult for the tie to be sentenced to one side or the other, but the last meeting of this competition played by the whites inthe Bernabuended the terrible defeat against Ajax by 1-4 and the subsequent elimination.
He also has the morbidity of the return of Guardiola to the white colosseum, with a team that in the Premier is failing this season, but that has the Champions between eyebrow and eyebrow, and more after the sanction that UEFA has imposed on them not being able to play the Two next seasons in Europe. Both the players, the coach and even the club know that the Bernabu isthe best scenarioto claim in front of everyone.
Real Madrid, meanwhile, has to hit the table and prove that it is again that team with options to aspire to the Champions League, although its performance at the Bernabu is leaving doubts.
But it is that Zidane and his players are not going to have a break, because four days later Barcelona arrives … also at Bernabu.A momentous matchfor the league.
If Real Madrid wins the Levante, present themselves in that duel with at leasta point of advantage. A victory against the Catalans will mean getting four points ahead and, above all, a blow to the opponent. On the other hand, if the opposite happens, the mood blow will be for the locals.
All this carries the aggravating fact thatthe Barcelonatakes years sintindosevery comfortableat the Bernabu, where, with Messi in charge, he has grown tired of winning matches in any of the competitions they have played, sothe field factorIt usually loses strength when these two teams are measured.
Whites, therefore, prepare to receive Guardiola and Messi at home inone weekdecisive for the future of the team in thetwo competitionsthat remain for fighting, the Champions League and. It could be the fantastic week for Zidane’s or the week of disaster, depending on what happens. They will be two exciting games.
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