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Deportivo La Coruna vs. Real Madrid: Team News, Preview, Live Stream, TV Info
- Updated: May 14, 2016
Five became four, four became three, three became two and now here we are: One to go.
It was back on April 20 when this furious five-game dash to the line all started, a three-way tussle between Barcelona, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid for La Liga’s crown. One point had separated them; perfection was required.
Two of them have achieved it.
On Saturday, after Atletico’s slip-up last weekend that saw this race reduced from three runners to two, Madrid and Barcelona enter one final shootout. At the Estadio Nuevo Los Carmenes, Barcelona take on Granada. Hundreds of miles north at the Estadio Riazor, Madrid meet Deportivo La Coruna at the same time.
“Cava or Champagne,” read the cover of Marca on Saturday.
For Madrid and manager Zinedine Zidane, it seems fitting that it ends with Depor given it was they with whom this all started. Depor, after all, were Zidane’s first opponents after replacing Rafa Benitez in early January at a time of institutional turmoil. Until then, Madrid had looked fractured and directionless, but that night they won 5-0, and everything has changed since.
There have been some bumps along the way, of course, but the manner in which Madrid have stormed to the season’s finish line under Zidane has been impressive. In the league, they’re currently on an 11-game winning run, while in Europe they’ve marched their way into the Champions League final.
“The work that has been done so far has been phenomenal,” Zidane told reporters on Friday, via the club website. “Tomorrow we will find out how the first final goes and later on, we’ll find out about the second.”
The issue for Madrid, though, is that on Saturday matters aren’t simply down to them. Trailing Barcelona by a point, the men from the capital need to win and for Barcelona to lose or draw at Granada—a Granada side who secured survival last weekend and who have nothing to play for.
Enter the suspicion.
On Friday, the first three questions at Zidane’s pre-match press …
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