Six points away from leaders Atletico Madrid, the Real Madrid of Zinedine Zidane he can still hope to straighten a season so far characterized by discontinuity.
The run-up to the Colchoneros in La Liga is still possible as it is possible to make your way in Champions League, where the Blancos will have to try to trim down the comeback attempts of theAtalanta 1-0 defeat in the first leg of the round of 16.
Zidane knows what the tension on the eve of an important match means, having won three consecutive editions of the Champions League at the helm of Real between 2016 and 2018, but the heyday of Cristiano Ronaldo belong to the past as well as the idyll with the president Florentino Perez.
So while the Franco-Algerian coach did not dribble the questions on a possible return of the Portuguese champion himself, an argument that has been taking hold in the last hours in Spain after the unexpected elimination of Juventus in the round of 16 against Porto, Zizou himself knows that a possible elimination against Atalanta could also push Perez to sack him, anticipating the end of a relationship that in recent times has experienced lower than high, an end that should materialize at the end of the season at the latest. .
Also because for the eventual succession of Zidane, the president of Real Madrid has very clear ideas. No profile belonging to the international football elite like Max Allegri or Jurgen Klopp, names approached to the Real bench in recent months, but a product of Cantera like Raul Gonzalez Blanco.
The former Madrid striker and captain and star of the Spanish national team could therefore follow in the footsteps of Zidane, a coach who began his career in the Real youth teams by coaching Castilla, the highest youth representative, and then took over from Rafa Benitez at the helm. of the first team in January 2016 and open an epic made up of two editions of La Liga, two Spanish Super Cups, three Champions and two World Cup for clubs.
After the victory of the Youth League last year, Raul is doing very well also this season and would represent a choice in the name of continuity with respect to Zidane as well as allowing Perez to also take a look at the balance sheet, tested by the collapse in revenues due to the pandemic of Coronavirus, saving the pharaonic engagements that European top managers would have required.
OMNISPORT | 15-03-2021 20:56
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