Possible alignment of Real Madrid against Alavés in the League

Carlo Ancelotti begins his second journey as Madrid coach with numerous casualties and prominence for a good handful of homegrown players. The white team begins the season with a visit to Alavés in Mendizorroza with a league premiere match in which the Italian coach will have many conditions to compose his eleven, especially in defense. To the already known casualties in the rear of Carvajal and Mendy, that of Marcelo was added at the last minute, who was injured in training on Thursday.

The Madrid expedition, made up of 21 players, travels to Vitoria with just enough behind: Odriozola, Militao, Alaba, Nacho and Miguel Gutiérrez, one of the three homegrown players (the other two are Blanco and the third goalkeeper Fuidias) who has quoted Ancelotti, plus the joker of Lucas Vazquez. The Galician can start as a right-back with Alaba on the other side, a position in which the Austrian has played with some regularity throughout his career.. That option leaves Nacho and Militao as a central pair.

The list of casualties is completed by Kroos, Ceballos and Mariano, in addition to Vallejo and Odegaard. These last two and the Utreran have not yet been registered in LaLiga (the squad, which still has 26 members, must remain at 25). In attack, Ancelotti has all the alternatives open, including that of composing the trident formed by Bale, Benzema and Hazard. Neither the French nor the Belgian have played any minute of the two pre-season friendlies that the whites have played, against Rangers and Milan.

Possible eleven of Carlo Ancelotti for Alavés-Real Madrid

The possible starting line-up that Carlo Ancelotti may present at Alavés-Real Madrid is a 4-3-3 formed by: Courtois; Lucas Vázquez, Militao, Nacho, Alaba; Valverde, Casemiro, Modric; Bale, Benzema and Hazard. On Mendizorroza's visiting bench, for the five substitutions he can make, the Italian will have ten players available: Lunin, Fuidias, Odriozola, Miguel Gutiérrez, Blanco, Isco, Asensio, Rodrygo, Vinicius and Jovic.