DBasia.news – Statistically, Los Blancos often build the attack from the left side. This is revealed after Spanish prominent media, Marca, described the appealing statistic regarding Real Madrid’s attacking style in the past 10 years.
In that period, Madrid have two strong players in the left side. It’s the collaboration of Marcelo as the left-back and Cristiano Ronaldo who loves to observe the left side of opponent’s defense.
Interestingly, when Ronaldo moved to Juventus FC this season, Madrid’s pattern to attack the opponent’s defense from the left side persists.
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Statistically, the attack from Marcelo and friends from the left side reached 44 percent, compared to 33,5 percent in the right side. It means, there is 10,5 percent difference of the two sides.
Madrid are also the team who often attack from the left side during the 2018-2019 LaLiga. By the 44 percent percentage, they defeated Leganes (42,6 percent) and Valladolid (42,4 percent).
The attacking pattern as mentioned above has been effective for the recent 10 years but starts to fail this season. It’s proved when Marcelo, one of the world’s most effective players in attacking from the left side, also Madrid’s prominent player in recent seasons, was injured against Sevilla.
After that moment, Julen Lopetegui squad never score any goal against Atletico, CSKA, and Alaves. It means there is a possibility that Madrid’s pattern of attacking from the left side is easy-to-read by the opponents.
Besides, Madrid haven’t found the fit collaboration for Marcelo. Plus, the team just lost Ronaldo who was very effective in scoring the goals during his time supporting the team. Indeed it’s Marco Asensio’s team, but once again, the Spanish player quality is still below Ronaldo.
Consequently, the possible option to balance the attack is by creating it from the left, right, or the center part. Lopetegui needs to utilize the central sector because Madrid have a lot of talented midfielders.
Let’s say Luka Modric or Toni Kroos. But once again, it will be a waste if Karim Benzema’s role as the bomber can’t be maximum. In conclusion, there are still a lot of Lopetegui’s homework in Madrid.