Nacho’s ‘tens’

Nacho Fernandez has been one of the protagonists of the streak Madrid (ten games undefeated, with eight victories) that keeps the team with options in the League and Champions. The youth squad has played it all900 minutes) and not even the return of Bouquets He has sent him off the team.

In fact, with the captain (just over an hour of play before Elche and Atalanta), Zidane used the system of three centrals with two lanes that allowed Nacho to continue in the eleven. Located as left central, his was largely the responsibility of initiating the play in the against the squad of Gasperini, which covered the Via de Ramos with Muriel.

Nacho has not been the only one who has played everything in the series that Madrid began with the victory in Huesca (February 6) and that it remains in force to this day. But it has been, together with Lucas Vazquez, the only non-indisputable one who has settled on the idea of ​​Zidane during these ten games. Without Carvajal and without Ramos, the coach has pulled the guarantee of the homegrown players instead of resorting to failed signings such as Odriozola or Militao, which in theory should be ahead of them in the rotation. The reality has shown that the opposite occurs.

With 20 games played, Nacho will no longer be able to get close to his personal record of participations, the 42 games who played in the 17-18, but his weight in the team has grown exponentially with respect to that course that ended with the success of Kiev and Nacho playing right back in a new demonstration of versatility.

The Madrilenian is just a few days away from celebrating the ten years since its debut with the first white teamApril 23, 2011, led by José Mourinho, in a 3-6 win against Valencia at the Mestalla), in a final stretch of the season in which Zidane’s idea of ​​betting on the three center-backs in the most transcendent matches awaiting Madrid is gaining strength. An idea to which Nacho brings his more than proven defensive solvency and a Real Madrid DNA beyond all question.