Fire in Madrid.
And enormous pressure around Zinédine Zidane.
Beaten in the last two matches with Real Madrid, the French technician finds himself at the center of criticism.
With his post threatened.
New proof that in football, we can call ourselves Zidane and have a track record as long as the arm on the White House bench (2 Liga, 3 Champions League, 2 Club World Cup), that is not enough to see the boat pitch.
It is in a hostile context that the former number 10 of the Blues approaches the meeting awaited by all of Spain against Barça on Saturday during the 7th day of La Liga.
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Asked at a press conference on the surrounding environment, the French did not shy away from it.
Everything except the kind of home.
“When we have a bad game, we are not immune to being criticized, to think that we are going to get out.
The reality is this: when there is a lost match, we inevitably say that we are going to change everything ”, he explained on Friday, on the eve of the first clasico of the season on the 7th day of the championship.
“I've always been critical of myself, it's the engine to improve. (...) After a defeat, as a coach, most of the criticisms are for me, and that's normal ”
Zinedine Zidane
“
It
's always been like that.
The story does not change.
Us, that does not make us change.
What should make us change is to tell ourselves that tomorrow (Saturday) we have an opportunity to play a great match, and we are preparing for that, to change things.
The rest will never change, ”insisted the technician.
After a first loss in La Liga on Saturday against the promoted Cadiz at home (1-0), then a second scathing loss on Wednesday for the return of the Champions League against Shakhtar Donetsk (3-2), the coach of Real comes under pressure at Camp Nou.
Zidane, who assumed he was "responsible" for these two setbacks, repeated Friday that he must "find the solution": "I have always been critical of myself, it is the engine to improve.
(...) After a defeat, as a coach, most of the criticisms are for me, and that's normal ”.
“But I don't live in the past (...) Tomorrow is a perfect scenario to change our image.
There are difficult times, but that's where the big print and the quality players show up, ”he said.
Answer Saturday from 4 p.m. on the lawn of Camp Nou.
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