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Six points behind the leader Atlético de Madrid, the Real Madrid of Zinedine Zidane he can still hope to straighten out a season so far characterized by discontinuity.
The race to the Colchoneros in La Liga is still possible, as it is possible to break through in Champions League, where the Whites must try to cut down Atalanta’s comeback attempts, they defeated 1-0 in the first leg of the round of 16.
Zidane knows what the tension on the eve of an important game means, having won three consecutive editions of the Champions League at the head of Real between 2016 and 2018, but the heyday of Cristiano Ronaldo belongs to the past as well as to the idyll with president Florentino Pérez .
So while the Franco-Algerian coach did not haggle questions about a possible return of the Portuguese champion himself, an argument that has been consolidating in the last hours in Spain after the unexpected elimination of Juventus in the round of 16 against PortZizou himself knows that a possible elimination against Atalanta could also push Pérez to fire him, anticipating the end of a relationship that in recent times has lived lower than high, an end that should materialize no later than the end of the season.
Also because for the possible succession of Zidane, the president of Real Madrid has very clear ideas. No profile belonging to the elite of international football such as Max Allegri or Jurgen Klopp, names that approached the Real bench in recent months, but a Cantera product such as Raul Gonzalez Blanco.
The former Madrid striker and captain and star of the Spanish team could thus follow in the footsteps of Zidane, a coach who began his career in the lower categories of Real directing Castilla, the highest youth representative, and then replaced Rafa Benítez in front of the first team in January 2016 and open an epic consisting of two editions of La Liga, two Spanish Super Cups, three Champions Cups and two Club World Cups.
After the victory of the Youth League last year, Raúl is doing very well this season as well and would represent a choice in the name of continuity with respect to Zidane as well as allowing Pérez to also take a look at the balance, put to the test by the revenue collapse due to the coronavirus pandemic, saving the pharaonic commitments that would have been required by top European managers.
OMNISPORT | 03-15-2021 20:56
