After Real – Alavés (1-2) – Zidane, disarmed: “I have no explanations …”

Where to start ? By this stat, perhaps, symbolizing the black hole in which Real Madrid finds itself: the Merengue club have lost three of their last six La Liga games. This is the same total as in the 42 games preceding this start of the series. This gives you a bit of the Madrid situation at the end of the eleventh day.

The defending champion has yet to say goodbye to his crown, admittedly. But the danger of a roller coaster season already looms large. Because analyzing Real since the start of the year is accepting to have no logical guidelines, no consistency. As if the merengue software restarted at each kick-off. This Saturday, against Alavés, he really went crazy.

Even Zinedine Zidane admitted it this Saturday: “We alternate between good times and bad times. The other day in Milan (Tuesday) we played a good game, and today (Saturday), three days later, we played a game like this at home … It’s complicated. We have no consistency in our matches and our results, it’s true. Today was our worst start to the season“.

“I have no explanation“, he even breathed, puzzled by the evils affecting his group. Without Karim Benzema, still absent, Real could not even count on a found Eden Hazard, released after half an hour of play for another blow to the right leg.

Behind, even Thibaut Courtois, yet irreproachable in recent weeks, failed by offering an improbable goal on a failed raise. Not to mention a Marcelo who looks more and more like the ideal culprit (Zidane’s 10 defeats since his return have all taken place when he was the holder, Editor’s note). So, when the collective DNA does not respond, the individualities are lacking and the collective plunges … “We can’t change the dynamic within the same match, ZZ continued. That bothers me, and I think the players too“.

Therefore, it is the specter of a bizarre season that awaits the Merengue. But at least they are aware of it: “It’s a very different La Liga this season, commented Casemiro, scorer at the end of the match. All the teams lose points, we have to manage to adapt because we lose points but we work. But this championship is really tough, any team at the bottom of the table can bother you“. It is especially upwards that we will have to look. Because Atlético, him, continues to garner and gain confidence. To the point of already having six points in advance. But above all one thing behind which Zidane and his family seem to be chasing: “For the moment, the problem we have is regularity“. Difficult to prove him wrong.