Real Madrid and Osasuna, inside play and midfielders against more direct and extreme football

end Cup They will face two teams that respected the processes and knew how to keep their coaches for the long term. The prize is the presence in this game that will decide the title. For him Real Madrid would be the twentieth, for Osasuna First.

The Navarre team usually plays with 4-2-3-1, which, without the ball, becomes 4-5-1. And with the ball, he often ends up in 4-4-2. It’s a team that’s looking for direct gamewhich tries to be vertical, attacking mostly stripswith many long passes towards the forwards and good use of calls other balls.

In attack, they try to be a wide team that often looks for wing centers. They tend to be defensive compact, located in the central block, trying to close the middle lane. He rarely presses high and has to watch the space behind him, especially because of his speed Vinicius and the ability to Modric, if he finally plays, filter passes. This is a team that uses offensive transitions very well and concedes very little in defense.

In 2021, when they faced each other and the match ended goalless, Osasuna canceled out the white team very well. He decided on a low 5-3-2 and it is not unreasonable to think that a similar proposal could be decided on in the final as well. It’s a team that has he has clear ideas and knows what he is playingwith fewer names than its rival, but with plenty of cancellation options.

On paper, it is Real Madrid who will try to take the strings of the final, with their flyers Kroos, Modric and Valverde trying to impose their conditions in the middle line, also taking advantage of the dips Benzema according to that zone and interruptions in the space of Vinicius and Rodrigo.

Somewhat schematically, we could say that La Cartuje will be on the lawn two stagings of different cuts: the interior play and midfielders of Real Madrid and the more direct and wing football of Osasuna. These are two groups with different ideas, but very internalized in both cases.