Between November 8 and 1is December, Real Madrid lost three games, drawing and winning. Since 1is December on the other hand, the Merengue won their six meetings. Between these two series, a meeting between Zinédine Zidane, the Madrid coach then seriously threatened, and the executives of his team, according to the Spanish newspaper Marca.
Sergio Ramos, Karim Benzema, Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Casemiro thus came to ask their coach to set up a typical team to start again, after the defeat against Shakthar Donetsk, in the Champions League. The relentless changes in the starting XI apparently disturbed the team’s balance.
The players never let go of Zidane
This season, in midfield for example, Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Casemiro had never been aligned together during the first ten days of the championship. Marca specifies, however, that the players, although not convinced by certain team compositions, have never let go of Zidane.
The proof, since this meeting between the coach and his executives, Real Madrid have won six games out of six, aligning their trio Kroos-Modric-Casemiro four times. With thirteen goals scored and two conceded over the period, all is well. The newfound stability allows the Madrid club to point to second place in La Liga, after finishing at the top of its group in the Champions League. Zidane is breathing again.
