BARCELONA – We will have to ask Zinedine Zidane if the field is to his liking. Not too wet and not too dry. Of course not muddy and even less snow and a little hard through the ice, not even minimal like in Pamplona on Saturday. The president of LaLiga will have to be asked whether the correct minimum weather conditions must be agreed with the Real Madrid coach in order to play satisfactorily. Not from others, no. For you.
It may be that El Sadar’s turf was not the same for Madrid as it was for his rival and the Osasuna players did not have the same difficulties playing. To become…
To which Barça linked three consecutive victories and the icy Real Madrid in El Sadar la Liga ceased to be a festival, but became a suspicious tournament. “The conditions were not good to watch a football match,” Zidane argued, explaining that the match should not have been played … Despite the fact that a priori neither the coach, the club or anyone else had said something and perhaps forgot, It is bad to remember that in previous years games in the League were played under the same or worse conditions.
Barça, Valencia, Atlético, Betis … And Madrid has also played under the snow over the years, on terrain that was impractical due to rain, mud or ice without causing any kind of complaints. . It shouldn’t be comfortable for the Madrid players to spend four hours on a plane (not to mention installed in first class), but when they arrived at their luxurious Pamplona hotel, they were able to rest all Saturday. Too many excuses … And especially when you consider that knowing the conditions that threatened Madrid on Friday, the club could have traveled hours earlier.
That Barça won 0-4 in Granada, that Messi scored two goals to add four in two games (and three shots to the wood), that De Jong is no longer his bad copy, that Dembele four games in a good level has chained. And that Leo is smiling with the company of a young and unleashed Pedri, waiting for the return of Ansu Fati, there are too many circumstances for Real, with Atlético at the top and three games to go, to stay calm. This is how the sudden change of attitude in the merengue club is understood.
Barça explained that it is a great team, that it doesn’t have to show itself to show muscle and that a good overall performance accompanied by genius blows from the captain is enough to regain confidence and look better at the future competition to watch.
Enough to make Real Madrid suddenly feel uncomfortable to sit on a plane for four hours (first class, let’s not forget) and rest a full day in a luxury hotel, while Osasuna employees worked little by little to get the El Sadar- stadium.
Sorry, with all certainty, that I won in Pamplona, Madrid would show muscle today by talking about an epic victory, in hellish circumstances and with renewed spirit, in a reaction to Barcelona, turned into a leader and without a trace of that “it was not appropriate” play “that Zidane claimed.