Marcelo's Sad Stats: Involved In All Of Madrid's La Liga Defeats Since Zidane's Return

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JAKARTA - Zinedine Zidane returned to Real Madrid's chair in March 2019 and has since led 54 La Liga matches. There have been eight defeats since Zizou's return and Marcelo has been involved in all of those moments.

Launching MARCA , Monday, October 19, since returning to Madrid, the French man's record is 34 wins, 12 draws and eight defeats. As it turned out, he had a much better record when Marcelo was not played.

As noted football statistician Mister Chip following Los Blancos' 0-1 defeat to Cadiz, Real Madrid's league record in Zidane's second era was 15 wins, three draws and eight defeats when Marcelo and playing. However, the Spanish capital's side won 19 wins, nine draws and zero defeats when the Brazilian left-back did not take to the pitch.

This means, with Marcelo, the win percentage is 57.7 percent and the defeat percentage is 30.7 percent. Meanwhile, without Marcelo the numbers were 67.9 percent and 0.0 percent.

The eight defeats in question are 1-2 defeats to Valencia, 0-1 to Rayo Vallecano, 1-3 to Real Sociedad and 0-2 to Real Betis at the end of 2018/19. Then the 0-1 defeat to Real Mallorca, 0-1 to Levante and 1-2 to Real Betis in 2019/20. Then Saturday's 0-1 defeat to Cadiz.

Marcelo played 90 minutes in those seven games and 59 minutes in the Real Betis defeat that came before the lockdown .

With the arrival of Ferland Mendy at the 2019 summer window, Marcelo will have to compete for playing minutes. However he had not taken advantage of his chance when he was given it.