Opportunity for Barça: the last FIFA international break was horrible for Real Madrid

The Virus FIFA has been the greater enemy of the trainers of the European football in the last decades. The quantity of injuries after the international commitments is alarming and finishes prejudicing to the clubs. The FC Barcelona and Real Madrid have not saved of this situation and have suffered the big consequences. In the middle of the pandemia of the COVID-19, the fear of the teams is greater because of the tightened of the calendar.

Contest split each three days, with zero margin for the recovery, is happening bill. In the Barça, Ronald Koeman already has lost to several players, like Coutinho, Lenglet or Ansu Fati (although in his case is different) and Zinedine Zidane does not remain backwards. The French has to half staff in the infirmary, by injuries and by COVID-19 and goes to play in the weeks to come his place, in addition to the permanence of his team in the Champions League.

The bad news for the French is that all can go out him very bad, as it already happened in the previous stop of selections. After the international commitments of beginning of October, the Real Madrid lost in two consecutive parties in his stadium, Alfredo Gave Stéfano. Zidane had begun in front of the Cádiz (0-1) rotando to key players, like Casemiro and Valverde, to give them rest and the experiment did not result. They fell in his house and lost to Sergio Bouquets by an injury.

Three days afterwards, the history could be more shameful. The Shakhtar Donetsk arrived to the Spanish capital plagado of drops, by the COVID-19 and humiliated to the Real Madrid in the first part, with a 0-3. The ones of Zidane almost attain to trace back the result, after the goals of Luka Modric and Vinicius Jr, but finished losing in his première in the Champions League, something that punishes him to date.

It will repeat the history?

Now, the reality paints worse for Zinedine Zidane. In addition to the tiredness with which will arrive the players after the stop of the FIFA, add him the drops by injury of Dani Carvajal, Federico Valverde and Nacho Fernández, or by COVID-19 (Casemiro, Hazard, Militao). The French will have only a day with all the footballers before measuring in front of the Villarreal of Unai Emery, seconds in the League, by behind the Real Sociedad. Three days afterwards, will visit Giuseppe Meazza to play in front of the Inter in the Champions League.

The difficult situation of the Real Madrid is something that has to take advantage of the Barcelona if it wants to encarrilarse in the fight by the leadership of LaLiga Santander. At present, the ones of Zidane occupy the fourth square, with 16 points. The Barcelona, by his part, finds in the eighth position with 11 units. For the blaugranas neither will be simple, since they will confront to the Athletic of Madrid in Wanda Metropolitan the Saturday 21 November. The ones of Koeman need to add of three in three from this time on for revertir the irregular beginning of campaign.