El Real Madrid he virtually said goodbye to the League at the Spotify Camp Nou. The 2-1 defeat against Barcelona raised the whites’ deficit to twelve points in the League, a practically irreconcilable distance even for the white club, which has made resurrections part of its history.
Especially in the European Cup, which is already becoming, if it wasn’t before, the great and almost unique objective of the 22-23 academic year, since the two titles already added to the list of winners, the European Super Cup and Club World Cupdo not justify by themselves the season in a club like white.
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One of those comebacks came against Chelsea, the same rival of Madrid in the same round of this edition of the Champions League. A double confrontation that is resolved in just six days, between April 12 and 18dates of the round-trip matches of the quarterfinals of the European Cup. Madrid will not count, however, with the decisive factor in the past year of playing the second leg Bernabeu. According to the draw, the first match will be played at the Madrid stadium, with the second leg six days later in Stamford Bridge. To overcome the team Ancelotti the cross against the ‘blues’, the same circumstance would be repeated in the semifinals, against the winner of the cross between Manchester City and the Bayern from Munich.
However, Madrid’s season is not reduced to the Champions League. The whites are still alive in the Copa del Reyalthough they hang by a thread. Barça, of course, won the first leg of the semifinals in Chamartín thanks to an own goal from Military. The appointment was of special importance for the whites due to their bad situation in the League, confirmed in the classic this Sunday, and the comebacks in the previous rounds against Villarreal y Atlético. Two victories that left the final close, and that therefore ‘forced‘ the team to an extra effort in a tournament that is never the top priority of the white club. A circumstance that changes this year, and that makes the visit to the Camp Nou next year a final 5th of Aprildate of the return match against the Catalans.
There are three games, which open up a maximum horizon of a total of seven, in which Madrid plays the season. Those who barely count are the twelve that remain for the conclusion of the National League Championship, in whose defense the whites have failed so boisterous. Madrid’s candidacy, solid until the break for the Qatar World Cuphas fallen apart in less than three months, and turns the remaining twelve games into a via crucis or, in the best of cases, a laboratory for Ancelotti to shine the blackboard. There is no other way to take advantage of an absolutely mediocre League from the same team that swept the previous edition of the tournament.
