The innumerable casualties condition one more match the starting eleven of Zinedine Zidane. The Real Madrid coach has not thrown Castilla this time, so the call for the Alavés game has been reduced to the 19 players from the first team that he has available. The game against the babazorros will be played this Saturday, November 28, at 9:00 p.m. (Movistar LaLiga) at the Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium.
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* Data updated as of November 27, 2020
Today, Madrid's problems in the infirmary were joined by the loss of Dani Carvajal. The full back suffers a muscle injury in the right adductor muscle that will keep him away from the pitch for a couple of weeks. Ramos and Benzema are still not recovering from their muscle problems. “In the end, Karim's is more time. Sergio's is the same, we are not going to risk anything. The feeling is good. We will see when he comes back, but for now he will not be,” said Zidane. at the press conference prior to the match against Vitoria. Odriozola and Valverde also continue to recover from their respective injuries. For his part, Jovic faces the last days of isolation after it was known last Saturday that he tested positive for coronavirus prior to the game against Villarreal.
With these losses, the possible eleven that Zidane will line up against the Machín team is made up of: Courtois; Lucas Vázquez, Varane, Nacho, Marcelo; Kroos, Casemiro, Odegaard; Asensio, Mariano and Hazard. On the bench, for the five substitutions that Zizou has available, the French coach will find Altube, Lunin, Militao (who returns after testing negative this week in the COVID-19 tests), Mendy, Modric, Isco, Rodrygo and Vinicius .
Courtois is the only player in the Real Madrid squad who has played every minute of this season while Modric is the only outfield player who has participated in all official matches (nine as a starter and five of them, including the last three, complete).