The Spanish Clasico is a formidable challenge for all the coaches who took over Real Madrid, but it will be a personal and historical test for Yolene Loptegui.
The win over the stubborn Barcelona remains a strong support for any name that took charge in Santiago Bernabeu, but at Loptegui it means more.
The veteran coach will play his first Clasico on Sunday at the Camp Nou stadium, after results that can only be described as modest.
Under Lopetti's lead, Real Madrid played nine games in the league, losing 3 points and finishing seventh in a painful scene.
But the loss against Barça in the face of Sunday may well push things into a catastrophic scenario for the Portuguese, which could mean a quick elimination of the coach who announced his leadership in June.
Speculation has grown in recent days over the ouster of the technical director, whose European champion's results have fallen under his leadership, with the bourse naming several names to succeed him.
But trouble for Obtigai "personal", is not the only challenge for Madridiin, as the team will try, at the same time, limit unique curse experienced coaches who took over the leadership of the team since 2007, except for the last coach, Zinedine Zidane.
According to AS, all of them have failed to win their first Clasico with Real Madrid since 2007, with the exception of Zizo.
The "Damn" has been launched since December 2007, after German coach Bernd Schuster first clasico at the Camp Nou and the Royal team managed to win with a clean goal.
Since then was not able to technicians managers who have assumed the leadership of the team to achieve victory in the first encounter them against Barcelona, the Spanish league, with the exception of Zidane, who managed to break the curse on the third of April 2016, when he managed the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema, from the leadership The team to win the game with two goals to the goal.
Between these two names follow the scenes of the curse as follows according to "AS":
Juande Ramos (in December 2008 Real Madrid signed Chilean Juande Ramos, and was the first suffered the curse of confrontations Clasico in modern appearance, as it was the first defeat in the face of him, and was at the "Camp Nou" two straight.
Manuel Pellegrini (also failed to achieve victory in the first Clasico in the 2009-2010 season, when Zlatan Ibrahimovic managed to score Barcelona's only goal in the game).
Jose Mourinho (on 28 May 2010 was appointed director of the Portuguese technical team to stop the winning streak Spanish Pep Guardiola, but it's the first face the team fell Boukmasip clean, in a famous match saw the expulsion of Sergio Ramos).
Carlo Ancelotti (suffered defeat by two goals to the goal in the 2013-2014 season, sparking the anger of the masses, especially after committing several mistakes, most notably the payment in the heart of the defense of Sergio Ramos, Real Madrid defender, in the middle of the pitch).
The last of them was Rafael Benitez (lost 4-0 in the first encounter against Barcelona in November 2015).