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In a training session in which no youth squad was in sight, Zinedine Zidane and the Real Madrid players met to discuss the team’s situation after Saturday’s 1-0 loss at home to newly promoted Cádiz.
The Frenchman wanted to make some points clear to his team in the face of a streak of games that includes the return of the Champions League, a trophy for Zidane and the club’s treasure.
The two words that were frequent during the team meeting were “Intensity” and “Attitude”, which featured prominently in Zidane’s speech. As he had said at the post-game press conference on Saturday, his players see that it is not possible to go out onto the pitch with such low intensity and they sent a message for future reference, ensuring that it is not possible to have a demonstration replay.
“We lacked attitude,” he insisted. In a conciliatory tone, without highlighting any player in particular, Zidane advocated recovering the spirit of war and unity that has defined Los Blancos in recent times and which has given them such good results.
The senior members of the locker room also made their feelings known, noting that there was no room for excuses. The players agree with the coaching staff’s diagnosis, or at least that is how the players who spoke felt: Sergio Ramos, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos.
The captain was the first of the players to speak and the two midfielders spoke very little but very clearly. Both the Croatian and the German insisted on the message of “unity” and “intensity” to carry on.
The relationship between the players and the coaching staff cannot be questioned as they all agreed in the analysis after the defeat against Cádiz.
In fact, Casemiro made it very clear at the end of the game with phrases such as “we gave away the first half” and “in the first half the attitude cannot be as it was.” The Brazilian was a substitute, but that did not prevent him from noticing the problems in the first 45 minutes. Luka Modric, who only played the first half, had no problem admitting that the team’s preparation move was bad and could not be repeated.
With this introspection, the players and Zidane began to prepare for next week’s games against Shakthar Donetsk and Barcelona.
On Sunday he had a recovery session for those who played the 90 minutes against Cádiz and a little more demanding for the players who did not participate or did not complete the game. All this under the watchful eye of Zidane, who on this occasion has preferred to convince his players that they must regain the form that led them to success last season rather than take out the whip.
Source: m.allfootballapp.com
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