Zidane has a pending account with Tuchel, the only coach who has not beaten with three games or more. The now Chelsea manager, with which he will meet again on Tuesday in search of a place in the Champions final, resists the French after four duels, with a balance of three draws and one loss. For now, Tuchel is ‘untouchable’ for ZZ.
Guardiola welcomes Tuchel and reveals how he met him in Germany
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Tuchel y Zidane they met for the first time in the group stage of the Champions of the season 16-17, that of the white doublet. Madrid missed few victories in that edition, but two of them were against him Dortmund of the German technician. Two-way tie in the first leg and two-two tie in the second leg. In fact, the Dortmund I would snatch the first place in the group to whites two points apart.
Unbeaten and leader in Champions
In Germany Madrid went ahead twice but he ended up giving up the tie in 87 ‘. And something similar happened at the Bernabéu. The white team went 2-0 on the scoreboard, but again let the victory slip away, this time in the 88th minute. Both times Zidane missed the victory ‘in extremis’ in his particular pulse with Tuchel.
Last season they recovered their rivalry with another double duel in the group stage of the Champions, this time with Tuchel at the head of the PSG bench. Goleado to the whites in the Princes Park Y tie at the Bernabéu, where Madrid lost again in the final stretch a victory that he had in hand after getting 2-0. The German coach still undefeated against ZZ and he won the game again by finishing Group leader.
—Tuchel’s anger with a journalist who asked him about Neymar and Mbappé
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Zidane has faced three or more occasions 35 technicians since he took the reins of Real Madrid in January 2016 and Tuchel is the only one who has not managed to win. In fact, it’s the only one you have an unfavorable balance in their particular face to face. Ah Orale tie against Chelsea allows ZZ to settle an outstanding account it has with German and remove it from your blacklist, with the added award of a new Champions final.
A Champions full of dangers
The current Champions is full of dangers for Zidane, which has not beaten any of the three coaches of the other three semi-finalist teams. They have not beaten Tuchel (Chelsea), they have not beaten Guardiola (City) and they have not beaten Pochettino (PSG), these last two his possible rivals in a hypothetical final.
Throughout his career as a coach at Real Madrid, Zidane has faced 94 coaches and only ‘lost’ to seven of them. Those mentioned Tuchel, Guardiola and Pochettino, more Caparrós, Luis Castro and Vicente Parras. The last two have joined the list this season. Castro won both pulses with Shakhtar and Parras eliminated him from the Cup with Alcoyano.
Simeone is the coach he has faced the most times, with a total of 13 duels and a result of 6 wins, 5 draws and 2 losses for Zidane. The Frenchman, apart from the lost duels with six technicians, has the balance matched with Imanol (after 6 matches), Marcelino (5), Paco López (4) Machín (4), Luis Enrique (3), Gracia (3), Dieter Hecking (2), Voro (2), Almirón (1), Óscar García (1), Aguirre (1) and Merino (1).
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