End of the drought madridista! The Real goes back to raise a title after 18 months

It arrived the day in that the Real Madrid went back to test the honeys of a title! Finally, the white club has broken this Saturday 16 January with a drought of titles that lasted a year and six months. Today they fulfil 549 days since the merengues won LaLiga 2019-20, precisely when it won to the Athletic of Bilbao (0-2) to consecrate in the Supercopa of Spain.

Said championship suspender belt won it mathematically on 16 July 2020 after imposing to the Villarreal in Alfredo Gave Stéfano. The Madrid, then trained by Zidane, added his tenth consecutive victory after the confinement and cleared LaLiga. Since the Madrid had not raised an alone title -finish the campaign 2020-21 in white- until this Saturday.

Carlo Ancelotti already attains a magnificent return to the bench of the white picture after imposing to the Athletic in the final. The Real conquered his 12ª Supercopa of Spain. It has done it with the goals of Modric and Karim Benzema, this last by the road of the penal. The Basque group could recortar distances in the last minutes but Courtois covered him the penal to Raúl Garcia.

The last Supercopa of Spain that the whites conquered was precisely in the season 2019-20. On 12 January 2020 it conquered the title in Yeda in front of the Athletic of Madrid. It did it in the batch of penaltis (4-1) after a meeting that finished in tie to zero. And curiously, today it is the favourite maximum to carry the championship suspender belt.

How it arrived to the title?

It won the group merengue to the FC Barcelona in the semifinals (2-3) in extra time; the goal of the victory arrived by means of Fede Valverde, whereas the target of the lengthen annotated it Ansu Fati. The Real arrived to the final and imposed categorically in front of the Athletic in a very serious party of the whites.