Atlético de Madrid are five points behind the whites and they go after them.
Real Madrid return to the competition this Sunday at the Santiago Bernabéu in a matchday 27 match of the First Division, where they take on Real Valladolid. A game that will serve to check how the white team will face the last stretch of the competition least likely to fight after falling at Camp Nou and trailing FC Barcelona by twelve points. Nothing is impossible in Real Madrid’s vocabulary, but the undertaking is certainly complicated and everything points to the League already having an owner, its eternal rival.
For this reason, Real Madrid are at risk of letting loose in the league, but if they get confused more than they should, they could even lose second place in the championship, as they are only five points ahead of Atlético de Madrid , who could make up for a very gray season by outscoring the whites in the standings.
After the defeat at Camp Nou, it has been reiterated both actively and passively that Madrid will fight to the end and that they will not throw in the towel at any point. But the truth is that the last time the team was seen under these circumstances happened exactly what the white team should avoid.
It was in the season when Julen Lopetegui, Santiago Solari and Zinedine Zidane passed through the bench. On that occasion, it was on matchday 24 when Atlético de Madrid surpassed the whites at the table, who were nine points behind FC Barcelona. But exactly, on matchday 27 they were twelve points behind the leader. They finished nineteen.
Real Madrid also have the handicap of being alive and kicking in two other leagues and having real options to clinch the title, so that could be a distraction from Ancelotti. The calendar until the end of the League is not very complicated for Real Madrid, but it is precisely against lesser rivals that they lose ground to Barcelona.
When the line-up is announced two hours before next Sunday’s game, it will become clear where the Italian coach’s shots are headed in relation to his intentions in the competition.
Source: Goal