This Sunday Quique Setién faces surely one of his greater challenges like trainer, neither more neither less than a Classical in the Bernabéu. Although, although for the first time it will direct to the Barcelona in the white capital, will not be his première in front of the Real Madrid neither neither the first duel in front of Zinedine Zidane.
The Cantabrian technician already has confronted in occasions to the Real Madrid being trainer of The Palms and Betis, and the precedents have not been for nothing bad, and less against Zidane. Setién Great six meetings in front of the whites in which it accumulates two defeats, two ties and two victories.
The first party was in the season 2015-2016, when it trained to The Palms: After losing 3-1 in the Bernabéu in front of the Madrid of Benítez, in the duel of the second turn the ones of The Canarians complicated a lot the things to the Madrid of Zidane, that finished winning by an adjusted 1-2 with a goal of Casemiro in the 89.
Already in the following season and still in The Palms, the team trained by Setién was able of empatar the two parties of League that contested against the Madrid. In the first turn attained a 2-2 in Big Canarian and later equalised to 3 goals to the team of Zidane in the Bernabéu, that would finish proclaiming champion this season.
If the results already had been positive in his stage in the Canarians, would improve even more in his career by the Betis. In the season 2016-2017 Setién won 0-1 in the field of the Madrid and lost 3-5 in the Villamarín. The past season, with Solari in the rival bench, the one of Santander added a defeat in Seville (1-2) but was able to win to the Madrid to domicile in the last day of the championship, in a party that finished 0-2.
Only a defeat in Santiago Bernabéu
So Setién only has lost one of the 3 parties that has contested in the Bernabéu and accumulates only a defeat in the three parties that has contested in front of "Zizou". The new technician of the Barcelona looks for to increase his good results in the coliseo white and achieve a victory that would mean a mattress of until 5 points for his team. It will attain it?