Every cloud has a silver lining. That must be thought by Zidane and the Real Madrid squad that is already preparing from this week to face the final stretch of the season. At the expense of knowing the exact date on which they will resume the league tournament against Eibar, a match that will be played behind closed doors in the Alfredo Di Stéfano state of the Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas (while the reform of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium) and that will kick off the last 11 league games, the madridistas play with the calendar, and in a situation that is not unfamiliar to them: they have six games at ‘home’, while They have five exits: San Sebastián, Barcelona (Espanyol), Bilbao, Granada and Leganés without an audience in the stands.
And it is in these displacements where wins the Madrid: trips to two complicated places such as San Sebastián (The Real discharged him from the Cup last February after thrashing at the Bernabéu 3-4) and Bilbao: He has only won once in his last three visits and he scored a point on his visit to Castellana in the last game played at the Madrid stadium in 2019. The absence of fans in the stands due to the Coronavirus pandemic will ugly the thunderous and spectacular atmosphere that is usually seen in these meetings of the highest intensity.
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At home, meanwhile, of the six rivals he has yet to face, Valencia is the rival that, a priori, can get him into trouble. The visits of Eibar, Mallorca, Getafe, Alavés and Villarreal at the Valdebebas stadium should not pose any problem.
Also in the Champions League he can be favored by the sad absence of the public in Etihad. The Whites, who start with the disadvantage of losing in the first leg match by 1-2, will return to play a European game without fans in their stands, as has already happened against Roma and Legia in Warsaw, among other cases. In neither of the two cases did the Whites lose: victory against the Roman team (0-3) and a draw (3-3) against the Polish team in which there were moments of shipwreck by the Madrid team. The pity is that all these games have to be played behind closed doors. Without public.
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