Ancelotti has the entire squad available to visit Vallecas

Ancelotti starts another week with good news. The coach has five days to prepare, with his entire squad, for this coming Saturday’s match (18:30, Movistar + La Liga) against Rayo Vallecanoin which the Whites will seek to extend the distance of six points that they have over Sevilla in the lead of the championship.

The white team continues to work with a view to a day that poses a challenge, but at the same time represents an opportunity to increase the gap in the classification over his most immediate persecuted. Madrid visit a Rayo that, although they are not going through a good moment (they have lost four in a row) have made their stadium a fort. In Vallecas only Athletic and Osasuna have been able to beat Iraola’s team. While, Sevilla will have, after playing the Europa League in Croatia on Thursday, to face the Seville derby against a Betis that aspires to snatch second place.

The Italian coach will have the whole week ahead of him to prepare for the match with the 25 players that make up the squad. Alaba and Benzema were the only players who did not take to the pitch in Monday’s morning session in Valdebebas, but neither the defender nor the striker suffered any physical problems. Both trained in the gym, in a specific plan that some players usually follow in ‘long’ weeks of training without interweekly matches.

The Frenchman was, precisely, the last player to leave an infirmary that, at some points in the season, has ‘accommodated’ more than half of the squad between injuries and COVID and that now, since the trip to Paris, in the that Ancelotti also recovered Mendy and Mariano, is empty.

The team will train again tomorrow, Tuesday, again in the morning session, at 11:00 at Real Madrid City.