Álvaro Odriozola does not exist, footballingly speaking, for Zidane. If the San Sebastian had any doubts left, his coach has cleared it up in Liverpool. With Madrid playing for the pass to the semifinals and without Carvajal or Lucas Vázquez, The Marseillais prefers to convert Fede Valverde into an improvised 'two' rather than pulling the Basque. Finally he gave way to give the Uruguayan a break, putting the Basque on the field in the 70th minute by a melted Kroos. But the sentence is firm: Odriozola does not count.
Last Saturday it was a mirage, because although Odriozola disputed the follownda part of the Classic due to Lucas' unexpected injury, Zidane did it to get out of trouble. He does not like Odriozola from his first stage at Madrid and did not ask for his return after the failed transfer of the full-back at Bayern, but he had no choice but to keep him on the squad by order of the club. Meanwhile, Achraf was leaving for Inter Milan …
Odriozola will have to leave in the summer although he has a contract until 2023 and what Madrid has left is to rethink what to do with the position of right back next year. Lucas, Carvajal's replacement, remains unrenewed and seems ready to go. In the subsidiary a promising side appears, Sergio Santos, but he is not yet tested. What has become clear is that the competence of Carva It will not be Odriozola. In Zidane's mind he is in that small group of footballers who are marginal in his plans (Mariano, Jovic …) and he will have to find his life elsewhere. His poster has fallen since he arrived in Madrid in exchange for 30 million, according to the specialized website Transfermarkt, only € 14M …