"We have to die on the pitch, otherwise the whole season will die", Arbeloa urges Real Madrid

If the "Wednesday game" began on Friday, Real did so with an own goal. In moral terms, at least. With that draw against Girona, surrender was unofficially handed over to the League. If the context for facing Bayern was already steep, now it is a very strong mountain. However, the inner feeling does not change.

By clinging to history but also against it (Bayern have won 30 of 31 challenges in which they triumphed in the first match away from home and have never been eliminated). Because in the Champions League it is not how, but what. A melody that Madrid knows by heart. Especially when we talk about the impossible. While the last thing that makes Munich a superlative act of faith, is that that faith exists. And at the top of that pyramid of faith, Arbeloa.

“Bayern will have white shirts in front of them, a round crest and… I'm sure we'll put up a lot of fight,” he said. But the most powerful was the first: “We have to make a big effort (…). It's our game and we're clear about it. We have to go to Germany to win. Confident. And die there”. Public words, which he has also verbalized behind the scenes. He made it clear, with the defeat to the Bavarians at the Bernabeu.

In the locker room, immediately after the match, he left words synonymous with those of the press conference. For this "if a team can win in Munich it is Madrid". A message of maximum confidence. A joke that was appreciated by the locker room and that, transmitted to everyone, it lifted the spirit at that moment. Another thing is whether or not it was reflected against Girona, if it works in the long term and at Allianz, but in general it lifted the spirit.

Although Kompany doesn't see it that way ("I multiplied it by zero, this challenge isn't over yet," he said after the first leg. Neither does Míchel. "They are capable of turning the tie around," he analyzed after scoring that point. But, above all, the one who doesn't see it that way is Arbeloa. He made it clear on Tuesday, also on Friday. And for Wednesday he is clear that he has only one recipe: "Go and die there." If they don't, what will die is Madrid's season...

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