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“You have to win in Manchester and qualify” for the final phase of the Champions League. You have to win “in four games, the first against City, to conquer Fourteenth.” The message of the captains stalls in the Madrid dressing room. The veterans detail that the tournament that the club loves is within a 360-minute shot of good football and the mountain no longer seems so high. The words have been repeated several times in the white kitchen, after conquering the League, and the challenge does not seem impossible.
Yes, the first port of this escalation is the most difficult, since all the Pep Guardiola by two goals difference. But the leaders of the staff warn with a positive vision that revolutionizes the group that, as they win in that battle, the morality acquired to go to Lisboa will be the maximum.
There is a dilemma that the team leaders have been solving from the first moment with the acquiescence of Zidane. A pending subject that is now studied in Valdebebas in a work of colleagues, private, internal. Sergio Ramos is penalized and will not play in Etihad. The center of the rear will be formed by Varane and Militao. The French “stopper”, the fifth man in the league champion’s security corridor, after Ramos, Benzema, Casemiro y Courtois, he will act as Ramos on August 7. He will be the leader of the Madrid defense. Both Ramos and Varane have been working with Militao for a long time so that he plays at ease in that European final and makes the game of his life.
Two qualified teachers
There are no better teachers for the Brazilian than Ramos and Varane. They are the benchmarks of the best defense in the Spanish League. The two have helped “Mili” to join the Real Madrid game scheme in a campaign full of performance slides. The South American has had a difficult time. The two banners behind have missed very few games. Ramos has played 44 games and has scored thirteen goals in total. Varane has added 42, with three targets.
That constancy of his two mirrors has meant that Militao has stayed in 19 shares. But he has obtained greater prominence in this last phase of the League. He was a starter against Alavés when the captain served a penalty. It was also on the last day, in Leganés. And he has received minutes in other matches of this second stage of the Spanish championship, finishing with the first league for the player who stood out in Porto and was hunted by Real Madrid. Militao He sowed doubts in his match against Betis on March 8, the last one before confinement. Zidane placed him on the right side and did not give up. It was a general failure of the entire white team, which lost 2-1, but the Brazilian concentrated the focus by the gestures of helplessness, shaking his head, which he was heading towards Zidane. It was simply a demonstration of youth, of hazing, because the whole group did it wrong and the leadership was lost.
The return after the confinement presented a different Real Madrid, in form, confident in its potential. Champion. And Militao has added to those feelings of self-confidence. The samples of support of the technician to the Brazilian in the league commitments prior to the achievement of the title said a lot. The greetings of faith that Ramos and Varane gave him in the games offered the information of a change in the Brazilian. He felt like a real part of the team, important. His speed was meteoric and his way of protecting the ball in his possession as the last defense, pressured by the rivals, without showing any rush, turning and giving the touch to a teammate, explained many things.
Final exam
Zidane, Ramos and Varane have tested him during this period and he has passed the exam. Militao plays more comfortably on the right side and Varane has had the grace to give him that position and move to the place of Ramos, left center. This happened in front of Alavés. Normally, the most veteran player demands a place to move better. Now, the Frenchman, according to Zizou, has thought about the team, not in his personal interest, and the South American has developed where he wants.
Militao and Varane passed that examination well before the alavesista box. The Brazilian also played well at San Mamés. It has improved dramatically in these final two months. Greetings, palm against palm, of Ramos and Varane with the outstanding student indicate that they trust him.
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