She has won all her games since the renewal of the season has scored the most goals, and simply refuses to make a mistake • Three more points tonight, and Real Madrid will celebrate a championship

• Real Madrid. Towards a bright white night?

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September 1, 2019 today feels like another era, but in terms of the Spanish league it was the third round of the current season. And that day, Real Madrid hosted Villarreal and scratched 2: 2 after coming back twice from behind. The lack of coordination on defense cried to heaven, a controlled attack that included Luca Jovic, needed a pair of Gareth Bale, and question marks began to pile up.

It was a second draw in three games in all of which Real had absorbed, and at that moment it was clear that this was not what Zinedine Zidane had imagined after a summer of massive acquisition. Tonight, ten months later, Real will meet Villarreal again with a win giving them their first championship since 2017.2017

The radical change between the September 2019 real and the July 2020 real did not really begin after the first encounter with the yellow submarine. Two weeks later PSG landed a defeat (3: 0 later the Blancos surrendered to Mallorca and after a series of draws came Black February which brought with it a relegation from the Cup, a home loss to Manchester City in the last 16 of the Champions League and league losses to Levante and Real Betis). (Early March).

For the Corona break, Real came out in second place, two points less than a terrible Barça, which changed coach during the season. One can of course only guess what would have happened if the season had continued as a series, but yesterday Zidane told for the first time what happened when the season stopped.

Benzema perforated nets. Will continue to conquer tonight as well? // Photo: AP

"When we went back to training after the closure, the players decided they wanted to do great things," the Frenchman told a news conference ahead of tonight's game, adding, "they demanded to stay after training to continue working."

This approach can be seen in the results today. Since the league was renewed, Real have won all nine of their games, with before the corona break its longest streak stood at five wins. She scores the most goals (17, like Barça and Atletico), threatens the most, and absorbs the least (three goals).

From a team that treated the season as a whole of 38 rounds, Real after the break looks like one that treats each of the remaining 11 games as a final. She is almost never wrong, never overwhelmed, relying on physical fitness, talent and most of all on the depth of her staff. Karim Benzanma and Sergio Ramos may be in peak season, but after Perlan Mandy's goal against Grande Real boasts 21 different scorers this season, more than any team on the continent.

Zidane with his trainees. Climbed up with the nails // Photo: AP 

The French coach had already led Real to the championship in, 2016/2017 but it was a team in the midst of a dynasty of titles with Cristiano Ronaldo at its peak, and 106 goals in one season. The current Real has 66 goals. When he took it a season and a half ago, people wondered why he should get into this pit, but Zidane climbed up with his nails, boldly and with a lot of patience.

If before the break he already realized that it was impossible to recreate the fun of yesteryear, after that he stressed the need to present Real Madrid differently. "Sometimes you have to suffer and suffer and not just play and play," he explained after one of the last narrow victories. There is no doubt that Real and her fans have suffered since they no longer have Cristiano Ronaldo, and a replacement for the Portuguese has yet to be found, so Zidane uses everything there is