Thousand of supporters went yesterday to the hotel where Atlético Madrid players rest before the games. They wanted to give them the strength and the support to try a comeback that it’s very unlikely. Diego Pablo Simeone started to prepare the second leg in the press conference at Santiago Bernabéu.
Los Blancos will face a terrible atmosphere. The stadium will be crowded and they will cheer their team and shout against the city rivals. Real Madrid already know that, as Zidane said in press conference, so the best idea is trying to attack and score some goals.
For this reason, the key player could be Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese striker is hungry in the last weeks and he’s showing his great skills as a forward in the Champions League, scoring 5 goals against Bayern Munich and 3 goals against Atlético Madrid at Bernabéu. Besides, this year Cristiano Ronaldo also scored a hat-trick (0-3) in in the victory in La Liga.
Having the same result, Real Madrid suffered a lot in their way to the Tenth Champions League against Borussia Dortmund. Los Blancos won (3-0) at Bernabéu and lost (2-0) in Germany, risking to be eliminated. Zidane knows it, so the team will look for Oblak since the whistle.
Another fact to be optimist is the good defensive skills showed lately in the Champions League semi-finals. Juventus were able to score three goals in 2015, including Morata’s goal to kick Madrid out of the competition. Earlier, the team didn’t concede any goal against Bayern Munich (1-0 and 0-4) in their way to Lisbon and last year Los Blancos didn’t concede against Manchester City (0-0 and 1-0). At the moment, Keylor Navas also had a clean sheet in the first leg and he will look forward to keeping it in this way.
