Need to smash em early as things are clearly not butter behind the scenes. Early goal or two and they may crumble to pieces.
Lotti probably doesn't finish the night as Madrid manager with a defeat.
Xabi for the end of season to build a bit of hope.
Nah, don't see him coming before the season is done. You never see these timings of managerial changes, especially not at a big club. Don't think Xabi would even wanna come before next preseason, because what would even be the point?
If we win tonight, that would tilt La Liga massively in our favour as well (especially mentally) and I believe we wouldn't let it slip through our fingers anymore...with 4 (technically 5) points clear with another Clasico (away at that) on the way, ready to demoralize them even more after 0/3, at least two of them heavy defeats (if not all three, if we hopefully manage to smash them tonight too), with two of them meaning us directly winning a trophy over them. Honestly in that case they'd have a better chance if we weren't playing each other anymore in the league.
But for that mindset to materialize, we need to win tonight, preferably another smashing to make it 3/3, and 1/3 (technically 2/4) as far as our trophies for the season go.