Zinedine Zidane came out of the coronavirus enraged. While he was convalescing and isolated, Real Madrid lost against Levante and fell within ten points of the leader, Atlético, who have played one game less. In addition, he is already out of the Copa del Rey and lost in the semifinal of the Super Cup. Criticisms of the team and their work have intensified. In other moments of similar questioning of his work, the French coach had let it be. I can’t control the outside, he used to say. But this Friday, before visiting the bottom player in Huesca this Saturday (16.15, Movistar LaLiga), he exploded: “I’m not going to leave him. If people want me to quit … No. And the players are not going to quit, ”he said.
His appearance before the media has been a great vindication of the group with which he has won so much. “Let us fight. Last year we won the League. Not ten years ago. Last year. Just a little respect to all of this, ”he said. “We deserve to finish with the players that are,” he insisted and assured several times that next season there will be many different things, and that this can start with him. “If there are things that do not work, you have to see them with the first person in charge. It is crystal clear. Next year things must be changed for sure. But this year leave us, ”he said.
The explosion of Zidane in the press room of Valdebebas was increasing and reached the melee: “You say many things and you have to assume them. Tell me to my face ‘we want to change you’, not only from behind ”, he challenged in one of his replies.
