Alaba misses the dress rehearsal

Plans are going according to plan. Only a small mishap alters the road map that Carlo Ancelotti set out to prepare for the Champions League final. On the eve of the game against Betis, the Whites’ coach trained with his entire squad except Alaba. The Austrian will miss the league farewell at the Bernabéu due to an overload in one leg. An ailment that does not concern him within the club since he has nothing to do with the contracture in the adductor that has kept him out of the team since the end of April. If the match were of greater importance, the Austrian would play tomorrow, but the squad prepares the final in Paris with care and from the club they choose not to force and proceed with the utmost caution so that all the players arrive in the best conditions for the decisive match against the Liverpool.

Otherwise, Ancelotti was able to work with his entire squad, including Marcelo and Bale, who yesterday Wednesday had trained on the sidelines to do specific work. The Italian coach, as he has stated on several occasions, intends to carry out a dress rehearsal for the final with the theoretical starting team that he will field in Paris. Only that loss of Alaba disrupts his plans for the game against Betis. A meeting in which Courtois, Modric, Benzema and Vinicius, who did not even travel to Cádiz, will return to the eleven last Sunday (the Croatian was sanctioned for completing the yellow cycle).

The Madrid coach called up the 24 players from the first team that he has available (all except Alaba), in addition to Toni Fuidias as third goalkeeper. Ancelotti will therefore have to make two discards to make up the 23 that he can enter in the match against Betis.

Carlo Ancelotti’s call for Real Madrid-Betis

Goalkeepers: Courtois, Lunin y Fuidias.
Defenses: Carvajal, Militao, Vallejo, Nacho, Marcelo and Mendy.
Midfielders: Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, Valverde, Lucas Vázquez, Ceballos, Isco and Camavinga.
Forwards: Hazard, Benzema, Asensio, Jovic, Bale, Vinicius Rodrygo and Mariano.