Real Madrid squad circle City tie: ‘Champions League or bust’

The sensation from the Actual Madrid dressing room is that they need to focus their efforts on the Champions League for the rest of the season, after slipping 4 factors behind La Liga leaders Barcelona on Monday night time. A second successive loss to Getafe off the again of defeat to Osasuna has left the Santiago Bernabeu pessimistic about their possibilities domestically.

Actual Madrid supervisor Alvaro Arbeloa was eager to emphasise that the title race is just not over after the match, stating that there have been nonetheless 12 video games to go. Though the Liga title is not of their palms, they do nonetheless face Barcelona in Could, that means they have to solely higher Barcelona’s different outcomes on one event. In the meantime within the Champions League, Los Blancos are seven video games from glory, however in concept in opposition to a lot stiffer opposition.

Actual Madrid dressing room need concentrate on Champions League

Maybe it’s a symptom of the idiosyncratic nature of Actual Madrid that the dressing room really feel their focus needs to be on European glory. That’s in accordance with Cadena SER, who say one of many heavyweights on the membership communicated the message ‘We’ve solely acquired the Champions League left’. It goes hand-in-hand with the sense of ‘desolation, disappointment and full impotency’ emanating from the squad after their loss to Getafe although.

‘The Actual Madrid dressing room is thin-skinned’

One other report rising instantly after the consequence on Monday night time known as into query the character of the Actual Madrid squad. Edu Aguirre advised El Chiringuito (by way of MD), that ‘there are a lot of folks with very skinny pores and skin’ within the dressing room, and that if a extra senior participant raises their voice and calls for extra of others, then an arguement tends to ensue. The environment is tense, and recriminations are likely to fly, within the image painted by Aguirre.

Management at Actual Madrid has been one thing of a subject in recent times. The departures of figures comparable to Nacho Fernandez, Joselu Mato, Lucas Vazquez Toni Kroos and Luka Modric with out clear successors has been recommended as downside for the dressing room, and the generational transition seems to be taking a while to click on.