LThe league that starts for Real Madrid This Sunday in Ibn muix (21.30 hours) means Double challenge for current campers. Because, with the aim of competing again for the most important title in Spanish football, another joins that Madrid has been resisting since 2008: Connect two tournaments in a row.
It was not easy for Madrid to achieve this, because In the past 12 years he has won only five league championships. Data acquires context when harvesting Champions In the last decade, which amounts to Six. So that Madrid wins the cup every 1.6 seasons and the league every 2.4.
Interestingly, the last team of the Bernabeu club that managed two league series in a row barely had weight in the European Cup. Fabio Capello was Real Madrid (2006-07) That I broke a three-year drought without titles-something unusual in the history of the entity – at the title that was decided to sing on the last day , and He was followed by Bernd Schuster (2007-08), imposing himself with solvency on all his competitors, With Villarreal ranked as the second in the final table.
But neither Capello nor Schuster bypassed these two titles, important but not decisive in Madrid. The The team repeatedly stumbles in the knockout stages of the Champions They made their respective paths on the bench at the ephemeral Bernabeu.
Unsuccessful attempts to retain the throne
After that, Madrid could not reissue the 2012 leagues (One with records, with Jose Mourinho), 2017 (The first double with the European Cup at this last stage, with Zidane in charge), 2020 (also with the French), and 2022, already with Carlo Ancelotti.
Interestingly, the White team if you come to tie up to Three European Cups (from 2016 to 2018), Something that has not been achieved at the continental level since the Imperial Bayern Munich era of Beckenbauer & co., In the mid-70-ies of the last century.
Madrid begins the defense of the league title in Palma , in a season that most analysts describe as Great favorites. Access to a team of Kylian Mbappe The more attacking power of the whites, that one more season they should have Barcelona and Atletico To his great opponents in the fight for the championship of regularity.