The humiliation in the Clasico gives Real Madrid the biggest crisis of the past few years. In the middle of it: the German national player Toni Kroos, who is currently far away from his best form.
The 1:5 home defeat against arch-rivals FC Barcelona, the Royal, the were recently able to win three times in series, the Champions League, on ninth place of the table from slipping off. The gap to leader Barcelona is now seven points! In addition, Real Madrid is waiting in the city for five League games to win. Florentino Perez, the President of the club, is accused of a wrong transfer policy. The Spanish newspaper “AS”described the defeat as “the last shovel of earth” on the grave of coach Julen Lopetegui.
At the same time real players on a negative record after the next, and can not build anywhere near the successes of previous years. Team captain Sergio Ramos has admitted that real’s “current Situation is terrible”. Midfielder Casemiro skin in the same vein and says that the game against Barcelona was a “Disaster”. It shows that the team of Real Madrid has not managed to compensate for the departures of coach Zinedine Zidane and guide player Cristiano Ronaldo.
Kroos is also partly to blame for the crisis
Football is unpredictable, it is often said that. This is shown by the example of Toni Kroos: it was Only last may, the 28-Year-old had won after a strong season in his third Champions League title in a row. However, since then a lot has happened. So Kroos had to digest first of all, the embarrassing to the national football team at the world Cup in Russia. After the disastrous start to the season with Madrid in the Spanish League. Kroos is on the rise in the past few years, to a world star and has had a major share in the Successes of real Madrid and the DFB-Eleven. So it is no wonder that it is now given also to blame for the misery of the two teams.
Hanging head after a catastrophic back pass by Toni Kroos (r)
Kroos himself says, lack of self-trust was the Problem of Real Madrid: “We have many champion and Champions League winner in our ranks. And we have already proved that we can deal with such situations. Since we need only the recent years to look at, because only good games were there, too – but also bad.” It is true, if Kroos says that Real has completed in the last years bad games, but a series of 481 scoreless minutes, which is only ripped at the 2:1 victory against Levante in the current season, underlines the dramatic Situation in which the Real is.
“We really try everything to achieve good results,” says Kroos, who does not want to push the peat is loud alone on the departure of Cristiano Ronaldo. “Of course, has since changed a bit, but we had games at the beginning of the season is also good, in which we have three, four goals have been scored. Since nobody has missed Ronaldo. It makes anyway no sense to not talk about players that are there.”
Creativity lost
Of course there are, especially in the striker Karim Benzema and Gareth Bale for the goals to be responsible. But also a midfielder of the calibre of Toni Kroos should be only satisfied if he is directly involved in a goal. Kroos is advised after the bad world Cup with the German national team the criticism in the Spanish press. The main point of criticism: the unusually high number of errors, and the apparently lost creativity.
His disastrous back-pass in the Champions League that led to the 1:0 for CSKA Moscow, and, consequently, to the defeat of the Merengues, was mocked by the “AS” as a “suicidal maneuver”. After the game against Barcelona, the experts of the languages in the whole country that Kroos had been taken by Sergio Busqets “from the game”. All of the Real-followers in the hope that the world champion of 2014 will find their way back again as soon as possible in the track.