Real Madrid: The most important game if the season returns
If the 2019-2020 La Liga season returns, this will be Real Madrid’s biggest game.
Real Madrid are busy preparing for the potential return of the 2019-2020 La Liga season, which could take place in mid-June after being postponed in early March due to COVID-19.
If Los Blancos take the field again to finish the rest of the season, they will have a few big fixtures left on the schedule. But since they have already played both their league matches against Barcelona and Atletico Madrid in the second half of the season, their biggest match will be against another team vying for a Champions League place.
Real will play against Eibar first if the season returns, but then they’ll have an even bigger game against Valencia, whom they barely drew at the Mestalla in December. In fact, they needed Thibaut Courtois to make a miraculous play from a corner to set up Karim Benzema’s tying goal.
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But their biggest game of the remaining season will be against a team that beat them in the Copa del Rey, Real Sociedad.
Real Madrid vs. Real Sociedad will be Los Blancos’ biggest match of the remaining season if La Liga resumes.
Valencia is a tough opponent, but they don’t have the dynamism of Sociedad’s attack with Martin Odegaard, Mikel Oyarzabal, Alexander Isak, and Portu.
Plus, unlike the first fixture in La Liga, Real Madrid will be on the road. Eden Hazard was a standout in the 3-1 win over La Real back in November and will likely return from his latest injury by the time Sociedad and Madrid square off.
But the road environment could really play into Sociedad’s hands, in addition to the confidence they’ve obtained from knocking Los Blancos out of the Copa del Rey earlier in 2020.
Villarreal, Valencia, and Athletic Bilbao all drew Real in the first half of the 2019-2020 season and will be difficult opponents for Los Blancos in the remaining games of the potential continuation of the campaign.
But there’s something else about having to go from facing Valencia to playing against Sociedad on three day’s rest. Odegaard, Isak, and Oyarzabal are capable of causing so many headaches for even Los Blancos’ defense, as they did in the Copa del Rey when they decimated the team’s backups. With the short rest between games and the need for rotations, La Real could have the same type of success.
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Two points behind Barcelona in the league table, Real Madrid can’t afford any slip-ups, like against Real Betis before the postponement, from here on out.