Chance for redemption at the Bernabéu against Rayo

Real Madrid has regained its course in this section of the season after the October national team break. After closing September with three consecutive setbacks against Villarreal and the Sheriff at the Bernabéu and against Espanyol in Barcelona, ​​Ancelotti’s team now has seven of the last nine points in the League and two victories against Shakhtar in the Champions League that have been on track. your qualification for the knockout phase.

Before the third and final FIFA window of the first section of the course, the Whites have the possibility of adding three more points against Rayo Vallecano at the Santiago Bernabéu and thus approaching the solo leadership since Real Sociedad and Sevilla They have two complicated commitments on Sunday in their visits to Osasuna and Betis, in one of the most anticipated Sevillian derbies.

Beyond the figures, which for the moment accompany, Madrid has a pending debt with its fans. The long-awaited return to the Bernabéu promised, but after two solvent victories against Celta (5-2) and Mallorca (6-1), marked by an offensive exuberance that camouflaged the defensive weaknesses, the white team has come down worryingly in his own fiefdom. He equalized without goals against Villarreal, surrendered surprisingly against the Sheriff in the Champions League, again disappointed in another scoreless draw against Osasuna and won with great difficulty at Shakhtar, in a duel during which those whistles typical of one of the most demanding scenarios in the world of football.

This Madrid better as a foreigner has the thorn of not offering its audience a convincing version and that is why the duel against Rayo is conceived as a good opportunity for redemption in Chamartín. It will not be an easy task, because on the shores of La Castellana comes the true revelation of the championship. The group of the strip, recently promoted, is a sensation of the hand of Iraola, who with a more direct style has placed his team in the European positions after almost a third of the League.

Two points away from Madrid, although with one more game, this surprising Rayo is planted that has the reborn Falcao at its spearhead, with the consolidated promotion block. It is no longer that Paco Jémez outfit, showy but somewhat candid at times, who used to be thrashed at the Bernabéu, but a rockier version, ready to achieve something positive in a stadium from which they have barely won one victory and two draws in 18 visits. garters. Iraola has his entire squad at his disposal, with the only doubt of Saveljich, which could open the doors of ownership to Serbian Maras.

Madrid, unwilling to give room for surprise and in order to reach the national team break full of confidence, maintains the losses of Valverde, Ceballos, Mariano, Rodrygo and Bale, protagonist of the umpteenth controversy. The Welshman already has a medical discharge and will travel with his national team, but as Ancelotti assured, he is not yet to be called up with his club. Not many changes are expected in the Italian’s eleven, especially when he does not see his team tired, and the main doubt lies in the right flank of the attack, where Lucas Vázquez, Hazard and Asensio are competing for a position. The Belgian, another man in the eye of the hurricane, “will have minutes”, although it remains to be seen if it will be as a starter, something that his coach left in doubt.