The few players who come to Valdebebas these days said goodbye to the Madrid sports city until next week. Zidane has granted them rest until next Monday 16 at 5:00 p.m. Surely then, the French coach can recover troops for the game on Saturday 21 against Villarreal (4:15 pm).
Footballers like Benzema, Lucas Vázquez and Mendy have been training in the gym, while Nacho and Carvajal, who exercised alone by touching the ball, they can rejoin in the first session of the week, while the internationals who have been playing matches with their respective national teams rejoin. Until Thursday 19, Zidane will not recover the bulk of his squad. The one who does not have it easy to get there is Álvaro Odriozola, which is on its way to six weeks off.
Other players who can be reinstated are Brazilians Militao and Casemiro and Eden Hazard. All three have been low these days by testing positive in a PCR test. Militao was the first to be diagnosed on November 2, while the other two did it on November 7. The three will pass a new test these days, in case of giving a negative result, to pass another test. They will only return to Valdebebas in the event that they have two negative results. Meanwhile, they continue to work at home.
All three have been confined to their homes individuals. Eden Hazard, for example, and as his brother Thorgan explained last Monday at a press conference with the Belgian national team: “He is in good health. He has no symptoms and feels good.” Only Fede Valverde, who must be out for a month, is the only casualty that Zidane will have … unless a player falls with his national teams. The whites will face a last month and a half of the year with 11 games to play …