In the eye of the hurricane, Real Madrid goes to the hell of Istanbul

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By: TIME WRITING
October 21, 2019, 11:15 a.m.

Real Madrid faces Galatasaray on Tuesday in a Champions League game without the right to fail for whites if they want to keep their aspirations to move on to the next phase of the continental tournament.
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Last classified in group A with one point, five of the leader, Paris Saint-Germain, the merengue team needs their first victory in the Champions League to start tracing in what is their fetish competition.
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A new stumble would leave in a more than delicate situation a team that has always gone to the elimination phase of the 'Champions', but this season has a defeat and a draw.

And this, in a week in which he just lost his league leadership in favor of Barcelona, after his defeat on Saturday in the field of Mallorca (1-0).

'Make a match to win'
"We know what we are going to play, we have to make a game to win because there is no choice, we have to think about winning the game on Tuesday, nothing more," Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane said after the game against Mallorca .

We face the next matches knowing that in football there are no easy games

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In the 'Champions', the surprising stumble against Bruges in Santiago Bernabéu on October 1 (2-2), after the hard initial defeat against PSG (3-0), has greatly complicated white European aspirations. But Real Madrid will not have it easy to start straightening the course in the continental competition against a tough Turkish team that has faced seven times with four wins for whites and three for Galatasaray.

"We face the next matches knowing that in football there are no easy games," warned French forward Karim Benzema ten days ago.

"It is a very important month for us because the Champions League is coming and we will have three very difficult games, but we are ready to play them," added the top scorer of the white team with six goals.

Without Modric or Bale
The merengue team arrives at the meeting, in addition, with the casualties due to injury of Luka Modric and Gareth Bale, who returned touched of their participation with their selections last week.

Neither of them played on Saturday in the League against Mallorca, and, although Zidane initially seemed to expect to have them by Tuesday, they have not finally entered the call, in which the German Toni Kroos is, once recovered from your problems in the left adductor.

The meringue team will have to deal in Istanbul not only with the rival team but with the boiler that will be the Turk Telecom stadium, with a hobby that traditionally squeezes a lot. Opposite, Galatasaray, third classified of the group with a single point just like Real Madrid but with better goal difference, will also seek a victory that can keep him in the race for the classification.
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Radamel Falcao García, Colombian striker.
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The Istanbul team, which is in the fifth position of the league of their country, after winning on Friday at Sivasspor (3-2), arrives at this meeting after losing 1-0 against PSG on the last day of the League of Champions

The game will be a new opportunity for the Colombian striker Radamel Falcao to finish giving his best image with the Turkish club, although the 'coffee' player arrives ballasted at this game due to discomfort in the Achilles tendon.

"I talked to Falcao today, I was still feeling pain," Galatasaray coach Fatih Terim said after the game against Sivasspor. "We will try to be ready for such an international meeting," added the Turkish team coach.