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Zidane's tactical instructions for his first El Clasico as Real Madrid's manager against a formidable Barcelona team featuring Messi, Suarez, and Neymar:
Zidane’s General Strategy:
When Barcelona starts building from the back, we'll press them in a 4-vs-3 setup.
Ronaldo, you cut off the passing lane between the goalkeeper and the center-back. Benzema, you stay on Busquets. Bale, cover the other center-back.
By doing this, we force Busquets to drop back to initiate play, which reduces Barcelona's numerical advantage in midfield.
Kroos and Modric, your job is to prevent the ball from reaching Iniesta and Rakitic.
Iniesta might try to sneak into the middle—Kroos, don’t fall for it. It’s a trick to free up space on that side for Suarez to cut inside or for Messi to drop deep and dictate play. Casemiro, you take charge of Iniesta if he moves in.
If Rakitic or Iniesta receive the ball, we press them with everything we've got to make them pass it back to Busquets.
Our goal is to close off the passing lanes into the middle for Busquets. Let him pass to the wings. That’s fine.
This way, we keep Suarez out wide to stretch the field. Out there, he’s not as dangerous.
Everyone is responsible for marking Messi, depending on where he is on the pitch.
A little bit of Zidane magic.
Of course, the match ended with a win for Real Madrid, despite the team being in a rough state just before. The media had declared Real Madrid finished and said Ronaldo was done. Real had lost the previous El Clasico by a big margin before Zidane took over.
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