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The Champions League quarter-final draw has opened up a difficult prospect for Real Madrid, who will have to face Liverpool twice, and Barcelona in eight days.
Tuesday April 6 will see the home game against Liverpool, with Barcelona visiting the Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium on Saturday April 10, then the Champions League quarter-final second leg at Anfield on Wednesday April 14.
In a year that has been full of unexpected setbacks, Real Madrid has managed to maintain its level of performance in the big games, or in the ‘finals’ as Zinedine Zidane likes to say.
The Real Madrid coach is ready to fight for the Champions League and LaLiga Santander, but he has to reach his maximum performance three times in eight days for the whites to do so. Otherwise, Zidanee runs the risk of having nothing to play for in mid-April.
So far this season, Real Madrid have already managed to save themselves in the Champions League after a poor start to the group stage by redeeming themselves in December and the Whites topped Group B. That said, the mountains they climbed will be nothing compared. to Liverpool and Barcelona.
Back then, two consecutive defeats to Alavés and Shakhtar Donetsk, the team and the coach were left hanging by a thread. A thread that served to weave victories against Sevilla, Shakhtar, Atlético de Madrid and Athletic Club in just ten days until it became a rope, to which Real Madrid could once again cling to life.
“We know who Liverpool are and they are like us, we have been on the brink but we are alive in both competitions,” Zidane told reporters when he learned of the draw.
Jurgen Klopp’s men are currently sixth in the Premier League, and on the weekend that Real Madrid play Barcelona, Liverpool will face Aston Villa as they face a fight themselves to get to Europe’s premier club competition next season.
Before all that, Real Madrid has two games to play – Celta and Eibar – plus three games for the national team in the offing. And Zidane will have to pray that the stretcher does not get stuck again.
If Real Madrid comes to the first game against Liverpool with a healthy squad, then doubts will come for the Clásico, as it already happened in December. Are you broken against Barcelona? Or will XI himself play all three games?
The last time Real Madrid had to play a Clásico before a Champions League second leg was in the 2018/19 season, and in fact it was two games. The first was the Classic Cup, in which Santiago Solari’s team was well defeated 3-0, and three days later Ernesto Valverde’s Barcelona won 1-0 in LaLiga Santander.
With that hangover, and without Sergio Ramos in the team, Real Madrid’s good boat was destroyed by Ajax who won 4-1 at the Bernabéu Stadium.
After Easter, it will be a good week or a bad week. Circulate on April 14 to see if Real Madrid is still in the middle of spring or if it has regressed to the harshest of winters.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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