The white team had a great start to the season offensively and a poor start defensively. Now the trends have changed
He RealMadrid They have competed all season and are still competing, but they have not managed to make a perfect team in any part of the competition. In the League, that’s la competition in which regularity is rewardedthe white team has shown its flaws all year round, but, and here comes the new thing, they were different before and after the World Cup.
The start of the season was very good. In the first twelve days, the white team won ten games and drew two, and only the subsequent defeat in Vallecas and a hugely effective Barcelona prevented Ancelotti’s team from going to a break in the lead. At the time, the Madrid team suffered from dramatic defensive baggage: fourteen goals against in fourteen games and only two clean sheets (Getafe and Elche). Interestingly enough, the fact that Benzema was injured did not affect his attacking performance (only one or no goal was scored in three of the fourteen games) and a defense featuring Alaba, Rüdiger, Militao, Nacho, Mendy and Carvajal, along with the best goalkeeper in the world, Courtois, leaked out. Inexplicable.
Ten games have been played after the Christmas break and now Real Madrid are a completely different team: much more reliable defensively but it takes them a world to create clear chances and score goals. In these ten games, Real Madrid has achieved seven clean sheets, a sensational record that makes it clear that they have fixed their biggest flaw. However, they have transferred that leak to the attack: if they had stayed in one or no goal in just three games before the World Cup, In these ten days this has happened five times, 50% of the time.
In absolute terms, Real Madrid have records very similar to those of last season when they eventually won LaLiga (47 goals for and 18 against this season and 48 for and 20 against last season). But it is clear that just as being reliable is essential in the Champions League, in LaLiga, bearing in mind that many teams come close and leave little space, it is much more important to have success in front of goal, and that is what is killing the Real Madrid player right now and it is the main reason why it is almost impossible to overcome this League.
Source: Goal