The Real Madrid win every game with Nacho in the field This season, the central squad has played 14 games (7 Liga, 5 and 2 Champions Cup), resulted in 14 wins and nine of them the team has not conceded a goal.

Ancelotti will have to change the defense for the derby against Atletico and Nacho is one that points to headline almost certainly: Sergio Ramos will be low, after retiring injured against Sevilla, and Pepe, which still has its problems a cracked rib, also not be in the derby Calderon.

To play Nacho is a consolation for Real Madrid. That, at least, is what emerges from their numbers in the games he has played with the white team in three competitions. With the squad of Alcalá de Hernares on the pitch, Real Madrid has not lost a single match. So far this season, Nacho has played 14 games, totaling 625 minutes (an average of more than 44 minutes), and nine of them Real Madrid have not conceded a goal. All resulted in victories.

By participating against Sevilla at the Santiago Bernabeu, has seven league games, with as many wins (25 goals for and three against) and four of them Madrid has not conceded a goal. He started against Levante and Rayo. Also, Nacho has played five games of Champions (two starts against Basel and Ludogorets), with five wins (16 goals for and two against), and four of those games the white team has not received a single goal. In Copa, Nacho has acted, and the holder in both legs of the tie against Cornellà (two wins, nine goals for and one against) and in one of them the goal of Madrid was undefeated.

His numbers last season are equally flattering for Madrid and Real Madrid. He played 19 games (12 Liga, three and four Champions Cup) and in 11 of them the white team did not concede a goal. The Real Madrid only reaped a defeat against Celta in the league, but could no longer claim the title. Indeed, one of the 17 victories in which he participated (he left alternate) was against Atletico in Copa (0-2).

Nacho could form in defense at the Vicente Calderon Varane as central couple, with Carvajal Arbeloa on the right and on the left side (for lack of what happens with yellow Marcelo, or the ability to play Fabio Coentrao). It would not be, in any event, an unprecedented defense, as these four players were aligned in Cornellà, Cup, although in League have not coincided.