Imagine that you are of a team that almost always wins titles and comes from a blank season with the most successful coach in its recent history. Imagine now that with a squad that is far from the best in Europe, your pair of central defenders from the last decade leaves and in their place in the summer they only bring in a very good one. Let’s keep imagining that the two most expensive footballers of their pl
Antilla do not play all season
, either because one goes through everything, or because the other, let’s say that injuries have made him an irrelevant player. Imagining further let’s say you have a vintage midfield that
they have been playing together for 7 years
and those who find it difficult to sit on the bench for various reasons: one, because they have no substitute even though it is not their best season; another, because he has a glove on his foot even though it is more diesel every day; and, the third, because he plays like the angels and has them
like Espartero’s horse
although he is on his way to 37. Imagine now that your team, with which nobody counted at all in August while waiting for the signing that they say will change the erratic trend of the last four years, is in April with
the league almost won
and in
semifinals of
Champions
after eliminating what they said was the best team in the world and the current European champion. What they cannot imagine is that this coach who has given Madrid back its lost greatness continues to be discussed and disrespected. Well, that’s real: Ancelotti hasn’t stopped criticizing him from the first day until the very night that Real Madrid celebrated the
pass to semifinals
with a defense of circumstances consisting of
Lucas, Carvajal, Alaba and Marcelo. unimaginable.
