DBasia.news – Real Madrid are always burdened with high targets each season to win the trophy and achieve success. Despite having left their two icons, Cristiano Ronaldo and Zinedine Zidane.
Unfortunately, the club based at the Santiago Bernabeu failed to show optimal performance, starting with inconsistencies which then made Julen Lopetegui fired, until now the performance of the team that was declining despite being trained by Santiago Solari. Finally, they were also eliminated from the Copa del Rey and failed to defend the Champions League trophy after losing to Ajax Amsterdam.
Do not stop there, Sergio Ramos and his friends also increasingly difficult to realize the target to win La Liga, because now they are still ranked third in the standings and adrift far 12 points from the eternal rival, Barcelona.
The crisis experienced by Los Blancos also caught the attention of various parties, including the Blaugrana manager, Ernesto Valverde.
“The situation is happening at Real Madrid? Yes, we followed it from afar, but Barcelona also remained respectful. Such things are common in the world of football, but there is nothing we need to say about this,” Valverde said as reported by Marca.
“When you see a team like Real Madrid or Paris Saint-Germain knocked out of the Champions League – after they played well and excelled in aggregate in the first leg, it shows that football is difficult. Victory is difficult and every team must be careful. No one team is safe,” he added.
Despite being 12 points ahead and increasingly favored to defend the title, Valverde has also not crossed El Real from the championship competition.
“Mathematically, there are still 36 points that can be contested, of course, I have not crossed out Real Madrid from the championship competition. I also do not care about the opinions expressed by the public, Madrid still has a chance,” he concluded.