Zidane still does not define who will accompany Cristiano Ronaldo and Isco in the attack.
Zinedine Zidane has ten fixed players for the eleven that will line up in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final at the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich and a 'free' position with three candidates, Karim Benzema, Marco Asensio and Lucas Vázquez, and the remote option of a declining Gareth Bale.
The transition of the BBC from indisputable to disposable has been made by Zidane in recent key matches, when the white team put his entire season in the Champions League into play, and his pulse did not tremble to turn Bale into a fixed substitute.
The great European duels against Paris Saint Germain and Juventus leave definitively the Welshman, with the head already in a next exit of Real Madrid. After being substitute in three nights, the ownership in the return of quarterfinals in the Santiago Bernabéu was a key opportunity that he let escape. It lasted 45 minutes in the field.
He is the player who has fewer options to complete an eleven for which ten players are fixed. They are Keylor Navas in the goal and a defense with Dani Carvajal, Raphael Varane, Sergio Ramos, whom he so loved for his leadership in the return of quarters against Juventus, and Marcelo.
The center of the field, with Casemiro, Luka Modric and Toni Kroos in a new return to what was his home in Munich, plus the magic of Isco as a hook with the devourer of the goal, Cristiano Ronaldo, who has scored in his last twelve games with Real Madrid.
Depending on the drawing that Zidane bets on, everything points to 4-4-2, he will decide whether to give Karim Benzema the last chance in point, confident that the long-awaited goal of a 9 without a punch will finally arrive (9 goals in 39 games this season); or increase the defensive work of lateral aids and speed in transition with possession provided by Marco Asensio or Lucas Vázquez.
Double of Cristiano Ronaldo and Sergio Ramos in a coup of authority that pushed him to the title. Ten members of the current squad remain from that team that went to Munich. That night they played Carvajal, Ramos, Modric, Bale, Benzema and Cristiano. In the second part came Varane, Isco and Casemiro. Marcelo did not play because of some discomfort.
In his last visit, in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the last edition, Zidane's bet was the BBC and with good results. Cristiano Ronaldo signed a double to give the win by 1-2 to Real Madrid in a way to the title in which he always measured great rivals, as it has happened in the current edition.
