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The worst Athletic one of Madrid of last forty years receives tomorrow the visit of Real Madrid, his most staunch rival most afraid by the parish mattress seller. He usually writes to himself just before appointments like that of the Caldron that everything remains arranged for the bet, but almost not at all it comes to this derbi in his place and, with more reason that never, there is opened for the game something more than three points. In the Atleti, because his bad starter forces him to take a party that ten years ago does not win, what would allow him to give a small jump in the table multiplied by hundred in his self-esteem. In Madrid, because although in the League it walks very well placed, the stumbles before the Milan and, especially, the disaster of Alcorcón need all at once authority that such mishaps drag to the negligence. But everything is very strange. More habitual thing.

The arrival of Quique Sánchez to the entity of the Manzanares still has not supposed the mitigation for that many people were waiting, and only the Marbella offered to facilitate the task of the technician. Then, a fateful and unjust defeat in Bilbao and an encouraging tie before the Chelsea. The image that the rojiblancos gave on Tuesday was better of the one that till now we knew, and before a mister rival. On this the local illusions are based, even more when the step could vibrate again with his idol, Omen, which has overcome his inconveniences and returns to eleven to help theirs in his struggle against the recent historical inertia. There are the laws that the memory leaves: some look for the optimism in reasons that appeared already in due time and neither they were sufficient; it is enough them to others in spite of walking a name that, between the entitlement and the stool, injects the fear into the blood of his adversary.

Precisely about fear there treats this saga (for the athletic ones, skylight is), slow by his repetitive scripts, and more foreseeable than the common thing. Although the Quique speech sounds well, the stage seems to attract again more words that you drive. Here the players believe it rojiblancos. The previous one is juicy in this sense, but once begin to roll the ball the athletic legs will tremble before a possible one, and even probably, early goal, as it happened to him more than once. Fitted so much of rigor, the Atleti relaxes and usually generates danger, but it always ends up by succumbing before Madrid, and before its own bogeys. Not always the history begins with a similar beginning, but often it finishes with the same ending.

A victory Real Madrid supporter would hurt too much the Athletic one, which scorer moves between the insecurity of his defense and his ineffectiveness. Madrid has a trick in his midfield, where Xabi Alonso and Lass Diarra turn out to be very superior to the means rojiblancos. It will be them who should handle the time of the party, so that there do not fall down the imprisoned targets of the impatience that showed on Tuesday in San Siro, and so that Omen, Forlán and company do not arrange of contras so egg whites as those of the past course in the Bernabéu. Of course, in the Pellegrini mind the idea is of that the Caldron is a propitious area not to lose jump rope, and it would be honest to admit that the crises of Madrid do not exist as such in most of occasions. There the bassoon stays with regard to the beginning garter belt, but the attacking potential of the joint meringue keeps on being the sufficiently important thing as to scare his neighbors, and if Kaká, Benzemá and enclosed Higuaín join Raúl, the fright can drag serious consequences.

For the athletic ones it is a mitigation that Madrid does not count with Cristiano Ronaldo, undoubtedly, and also the fact it is that Raúl Albiol has not been ‘excused’ by the Committee. But to both falls it is necessary to add two the same way beneficial ones: those of Juanito and Assunçao. Important, because any of two soccer players fit in the ambitious original sketch of the team, and stay below the circumstances, reducing the potential of the set. The key for the Athletic one, since he will not choose for the slow control of the game, will consist in sealing with goals the cracks that are appearing. Here Casillas arises, and the low yield scorer of the rojiblancos like places opposite to his eternal rival (four so many people in the last eight duels, for seventeen of Madrid). Quite, even that thing about tomorrow, it enters an immense insecurities abánico in the athletic edict, and of certainties the side Real Madrid supporter. All of them return to the stage where so many times they were judged for the soccer, which will decide the luck of everyone again.

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