Far from his usual affability between speeches without content, the return of Zidane to a previous one after having been ill with coronavirus brought a sour Frenchman, irritated with the treatment received, angry: “There is talk of many things, changes of coach & mldr; But we are going to fight until the end of the season and we deserve a little respect. If people want me to quit, I’m not going to do that. Tell me to my face that you want me to be changed, not just from behind & rdquor ;, the technician exploded.
It was an attack fueled by his situation at the club: without signings in more than a year, without solving the renewal of Ramos (in which he has publicly positioned himself in favor of prolonging the relationship), with some young people who are not get performance and, above all, always in the trigger. Zidane is always in the spotlight after each bad result of the whites, more and more frequent, while President Florentino Pérez and his management are exonerated.
“This squad won La Liga last year and these players deserve to fight for La Liga this year, they deserve respect. You have to say it to my face here, that you want to change me, not from behind. We too try to do our job and we deserve respect & rdquor ;, he insisted on several responses. “I have been locked up for two weeks, like in a cage, and I want to show that I am willing to fight & rdquor ;, he confessed in the last answer in French.
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Meanwhile, after a month to forget, the team returns to the competition under the baton of its usual director with a list of summoned plagued with casualties, still without Ramos or Carvajal (in the final stretch of his recovery), also without Hazard, with just 17 members, including two homegrown players.
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Before, aware that the situation is not buoyant, Zidane confessed: “It is true that next year things have to change & rdquor;He said with the naturalness of someone who has assumed it, like someone who does not know how to hold the pull, but moves on. “Let us fight, those who won the League last year & rdquor ;, the coach insisted on that idea.
SD Huesca: Álvaro Fernández; Pulido, Siovas, Gastón; Maffeo, Doumbia, Rico, Seoane, Galán; Okazaki, Rafa Mir. Technical: José Rojo, Pacheta. Low: Valera, Mosquera and Insua
Real Madrid: Courtois; Odriozola, Nacho, Varane, Mendy; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Asensio, Benzema, Vinicius. Technical: Zinedine Zidane. Low: Hazard, Ramos, Carvajal, Militao, Lucas Vázquez, Rodrygo, Isco and Valverde.
Referee: Xavier Estrada Fernández (Catalan).
Stadium: The Alcoraz. 4.15pm (Movistar LaLiga).