This Saturday there will be a good day for all those people rare to not like football. They will try to get to dine out, to go see a movie in theaters, and so forth. But it will difficult to gather many friends for their plans will have just as those who, like them, pass soccer Olympian. Most of us have other plans in the house either own or that of a friend, at any bar or the luckiest, in the very Bernabeu football fans all have an unmissable at 22:00 of the night: Real Madrid-Atletico Madrid.
Long ago a meeting other than a Madrid-Barça up so much expectation. Various factors that have made the Madrid derby this weekend in a game that nobody wants to lose. The state in which both teams reach their fratricidal duel is inversely proportional to what we have been seeing in recent years and, at such a novelty, nobody remains indifferent.
Atletico Madrid takes a whopping thirteen without put hand to Real Madrid in the Bernabeu. The last victory in fief rojiblanca Madrid (1-3) was the October 30, 1999. But beyond the results, the main difference with previous years lies in the mental and emotional with each team comes into this derby and, perhaps more importantly, how they can go after him.
The problem of the mattress in his later duels with Madrid was that never came with a real feeling to win at the Bernabeu. Some years have seen another face Atletico derby with confidence, but the origin of that feeling always came being more at ease having the red and white fans to motivate themselves, even in the darkest times, that the real capacity of your computer to prevail in the stadium of their arch-rivals.
This has changed with the Cholo Simeone. Atletico Madrid now knows what he plays and plays well. It employs long, that goes beyond an eleven ideal, which is strongly committed to the idea that football and, as a result of the work of coach parties faced with absolute confidence in what they have to do, in how they have to play. And as we said a few days ago , two are the keys to the mattress: order and intensity.
On the other hand we have the Real Madrid of Jose Mourinho, currently going through a difficult time, not only by the results, which are discussed below, but also (I should say especially) for the weaknesses in his game that we witnessed in these early months of competition. After making the round of the Super Cup which is the best half-hour mark since the Portuguese coach took over the team-thirty minutes are to see repeated again and again as the zenith of Madrid Mou game - the white team, far from maintaining that level of play, has been losing some of the features than last year made him the league champion Hundred Points.
Two of the points that Madrid has lost that level are precisely the highlight at Atletico Cholo: order and intensity. Madrid is no longer the well-oiled machine that was the last year when he moved as a block automated, always with the same distance between lines and with an uncanny ability to combine different pressure levels in the same game. In this sense the low defense that has been suffering in recent months have hurt him in this regard: its side injuries have caused Pepe and Ramos not lead to a defensive line forward end, to which if we add the low Khedira, we have a team that has been unable to impose what they call Mou likes high pressure line, one with which previous seasons (especially the last) or appointed and around the Supercopa of Spain, drowning his opponents in his own field-based recovery-lightning counterattack on goal.
In relation to the intensity of this course Madrid is also far from what it was last season. But in this case, the casualties are not the key reason (in fact if anything the players usually offer less common is a point of intensity because of their dire need to prove things). Contrary to what many have suggested, I think that the current deficits are more responsible for the mental than the physical. Sure to run a lot you need to have good legs and a physical background, but what makes the strength of a team is its reliance on the idea of play, their blind faith in what the coach brand is best, and commitment and solidarity among the players.
I'm not saying that the white team is in a pre-seismic, as some would do, but it seems beyond doubt that the mental state of the costumes (including here players and coaching staff) is not what it was. And for an idea so extreme as Mourinho defends Communion must be total, because of competition philosophy Portuguese coach be the difference between 80% or 100% is more than 20%. Or the team is to stop or not. And what it takes many months and hard work can build smaller crack by fissures, whether of the kind they are.
In the next post we will focus on the players who can make the derby and elucubraremos on how both teams can come as the result is given in the game.
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