BARCELONA – Zinedine Zidane will have to be asked if he likes the pitch. Not too wet or too dry. Muddy of course no less snowy and a little hard on the ice, not even minimally like in Pamplona on Saturday. The president of Laliga will have to be asked if he has to agree with the Real Madrid coach the appropriate, minimum weather conditions to be able to play to his satisfaction. Not from the others, no. To his.
It will be that the turf of the Sadar was not the same for Madrid as for its rival and that the players of Osasuna did not have their same difficulties to play. Will be …
To which Barça linked three consecutive victories and the cold froze at Real Madrid in El Sadar the League ceased to be a festival to become a suspicious tournament. “The conditions were not good to watch a football match” Zidane argued to explain that the match did not have to be played … Although a priori nothing had been said neither by the coach nor the club nor anyone and maybe forgetting, it is not necessary to be badly thought, that in previous years matches in equal or worse conditions were played in the League.
Under the snow, on impassable terrain due to rain, mud or ice, they have played for Barça, Valencia, Atlético, Betis … And also Madrid over the years without this provoking any complaints. It didn’t have to be comfortable for Madrid players to spend four hours on a plane (installed in first class, don’t forget), but arriving at their luxury hotel in Pamplona they were able to rest throughout the day. Saturday. Too many excuses … And more if you take into account the fact that knowing the conditions that threatened already in Madrid on Friday the club could have traveled hours before.
That Barça won 0-4 in Granada, that Messi scored two goals to add four to two games (and three shots on goal), that De Jong is no longer his bad copy, that Dembélé has chained four games at a good level . .. and that Leo smiles with the company of a young and detached Pedri, waiting for the return of Ansu Fati, are too many circumstances for Real, with Atletico up and three games pending, to keep calm. This includes the sudden change in attitude at the meringue club.
Barça have explained that they are a great team, that they don’t need to show off to show muscle and that a good overall performance is enough, accompanied by their captain’s strokes of genius, to regain confidence and look to the future of the league with better eyes.
Enough because, suddenly, Real Madrid is uncomfortable spending four hours on a plane (first class, we still remember) and resting for a whole day in a luxury hotel while Osasuna employees worked at a reasonable price. to leave the Sadar stadium in condition.
Surely, sorry, for sure, to have won in Pamplona Madrid would show muscle today talking about an epic victory, in hellish conditions and with renewed spirits, in a response to Barcelona, which has become a leader and without a trace of that “shouldn’t be played” that Zidane cried.