Although the derbi saw like a big opportunity to give a hit on the table, the impotence of the Real Madrid turned it into another prick in LaLiga, that every time goes escaping more and tiñéndose of Barcelona colour. It does two seasons, and with an identical balance, Rafa Benítez finish in the street few dates after falling goleado in the Classical.
To the term of the day 12 the whites presented the same numbers: 24 points. Seven parties won, three empatados and two stray -including a 0-4 in the Classical of Santiago Bernabéu- finish with the 'merengues' desencantados and to six points of his rival maximum, a distance that for the time being has pulled until the 10.
It did not take too much in acting Florentino Pérez, and the day 4 January announced the dismissal of Benítez. Then the madridistas sailed in third position, to 4 points of the Athletic (leader with 41) and to 2 of the Barça (second with 39). Precisely, it went then when it appeared Zidane, that yes attained to patch the difference but not recovering the title, something that follows insisting that it will do in this course.
Ghosts
Although the shadow of the dismissal plans on Zinedine Zidane, does not seem that it go to have movements in the bench of Santiago Bernabéu in the short term, and is that Florentino Pérez is thinking in acting of face to the next summer. In this sense, the informations aim to that the Madrilenian tycoon already has contacted with Joachim Löw, whose answer would have been affirmative and to the that would expect to the ending of the World-wide of Russia.