Real Madrid Faces have been seen ten times as players or coaches: eight wins and two draws
EHe first against the last. The team with the best cards to be champion against the one with the most tricks to go down. It is the drawing of the match on Sunday between the Real Madrid and the Spanish in Barcelona. To all the advantages of the whites (morale, staff, quality, results …) it is added that for Zidane Having Abelardo in front of LaLiga is synonymous with victory. Not only that, it goes hand in hand with comfortable results.
His LaLiga duels started on the grass. Abelardo Zidane was not measured in the first season of the French in Spain, the last of Asturian in Barcelona. He had to wait for the next one, when he was already a Alavs. There were two resounding victories for Madrid: 5-2 at Bernabu, on the day Ronaldo hit white, and 1-5 at Vitoria.
That dynamic has been maintained on the three occasions in which they have crossed paths as coaches. In the first two, Abelardo directed the Sporting: 5-1 and 2-1 for whites. In the third, he was at the controls of the Alavs: 4-0.
The party in the RCDE Stadium Be the first to lead Abelard against Zidane other than at Bernabu. The previous three had the benches of the White House as a stage. The first because ZZ arrived in Madrid in January; the second because Pitu was dismissed in Gijn (January 2017) before the round was played and the third because Abelardo’s arrival in Vitoria was after Madrid won 1-2 at Mendizorroza with a double by Ceballos.
Before Zidane reached the Real Madrid, his path crossed three times with Abelardo’s in national team matches. Twice the French won (2-1 in the quarterfinals of the Euro the 2000 and 1-0 in the friendly with which it was inaugurated St Denis) and one ended in a draw (1996 European Championship).
And his first duels in Spain were in the Champions League, in which he finished with the title of Madrid in Glasgow, the Ninth. It happened in the semifinals: 0-2 for Madrid at the Camp Nou, with a goal from Zidane, and 1-1 at Bernabu.
Thus, between duels on the green and on the bench, the face to face between Zidane and Abelardo totals 10 games. The balance is eight wins for Zidane and two draws; 28 goals for the French teams and eight for the Pitu teams.
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