Absolute secrecy until one hour before the game

The Real players carried out their last training session for the game against Alavés on Saturday with a predominant note: secrecy. Since announcing the 10 positives, the club decided not to reveal which footballers were infected and also forced the players not to give clues through social networks. Thus, light will only be shed officially when, about an hour before the match and with the squad already in Mendizorroza, the Real announces the call for this match, in which there will be a minimum of seven casualties: Monreal Y Carlos Fernandez due to injury, Oyarzabal by sanction, Rafinha because he could not be registered and three more, of undisclosed identity, due to covid.

The plan that the technicians have designed for today is the following: antigen test first thing in the morning for all footballers, bus trip to Gasteiz for all those who test negative or those who test positive who have just passed the mandatory quarantine , lunch in the capital of Alava and march to the field of play, where the club will announce which ‘eleven’ players start and which remain on the bench, from which it will be possible to deduce which are the infected who have not been able to recover .

Two positives in Alavés

Alavés maintains the same line of silence around its positives. The Gasteiztarra club announced that two of its first team players were infected by the virus and that they were already isolated and asymptomatic. During the week, they had reported half a dozen positives, but none of them from first-team footballers.

In the babazorro box, apart from the two infected by the coronavirus, they are injured due to this meeting Ximo Navarro Y Pere Pons, victim of a knee sprain in recent days.