For the previous few years, most observers and followers have began to anticipate Actual Madrid to begin acting at their finest stage within the last few months of each season.
Regardless of how their season has gone as much as that time, the Merengues are anticipated to get to their finest stage from February onwards, as they begin going through essentially the most essential exams within the enterprise finish of a season.
Nonetheless, this season, one can argue that their kind has dropped even additional within the month of February, and issues are usually not wanting too good going ahead both.
The final month was not fully unhealthy, and one of many highlights for Los Blancos was their 6-3 combination win over Manchester Metropolis within the playoff spherical for qualification to the Spherical of 16 of the UEFA Champions League.
Equally, in addition they received over Leganes within the Copa del Rey and at the moment get pleasure from a 1 purpose lead over Actual Sociedad within the semi-final tie of this competitors, after Endrick scored the lone purpose within the first leg on the Anoeta.
Nonetheless, the final month was devastating for his or her La Liga aspirations, as they misplaced as much as 7 factors within the league in February, and misplaced 3 extra of their first league match in March.
Actual Madrid began February with a sport towards RCD Espanyol, a match that they had been anticipated to win with out many troubles retaining in view the standard of their squad. Nonetheless, the Catalan aspect was capable of spring a shock as they beat the Merengues with a 1-0 scoreline.
There isn’t any doubt that this was a extremely controversial match with a number of referee choices going towards Los Blancos, however Carlo Ancelotti’s aspect ought to nonetheless have gotten the complete three factors.
After the Copa del Rey tie quarter-final tie, Actual Madrid returned to La Liga with the Madrid derby. This match additionally noticed a controversial penalty going towards the Merengues, however they had been capable of salvage a draw with a Kylian Mbappe strike within the second half. Nonetheless, 2 extra factors had been misplaced with this sport.
The story remained fairly unchanged as they once more returned to La Liga after the primary leg of the UCL tie towards Manchester Metropolis with a match towards Osasuna. The principle spotlight of this sport was the purple card proven to Jude Bellingham for his alleged verbal abuse towards the referee.
Regardless of going forward early within the first half, Los Blancos noticed the sport tied as Osasuna had been additionally awarded a penalty within the second half, which they efficiently transformed to attract the sport.
The one league win for Actual Madrid in February got here towards Girona, proper after that they had eradicated Manchester Metropolis from the UCL. Objectives from Luka Modric and Vinicius Junior allowed the Merengues to win and stay on equal factors with Barcelona on the league desk after their beforehand dropped factors had allowed the Blaugranes to beat the 7-point deficit that they had again on matchday 21.
This was the final league match for the Merengues in February, however issues remained the identical at the start of March, as they fell to in an total poor show.
Thus, the 28 days from 1st February to 1st March noticed Los Blancos squander their wholesome lead on the high of the La Liga desk, as they at the moment stand third within the standings, behind each Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.
Hopefully, Carlo Ancelotti will have the ability to change the course of ends in the approaching weeks to make sure his workforce stays alive within the competitors within the final 12 matches.