The next stop for Real Madrid on its way to the league title is in Vallecas. The redheads await the leader in a Vallecas Stadium where this season only Athletic and Osasuna have managed to win, although it has been in the last two appearances of Iraola’s men before their public.
In the madridista ranks, Ancelotti has had the whole week to work with his team, an atypical circumstance in the whites’ tight schedule. The Italian coach started with the entire squad available, but two setbacks have forced him to make two discards in the call. The first of them is Alaba. The Austrian center-back suffers some slight discomfort in the adductor and will not force. Their contest in the second leg of the Champions League against PSG in a week and a half is crucial given the absences due to suspension of Mendy and Casemiro. The second absence in the list of Carletto it’s balealso with physical problems and that in the training sessions of the week he has alternated the sessions with the group with individual work.
The ’empty’ in the infirmary has meant that the Madrid coach has been able to complete his last calls without any problems. He has even had to discard. Vallejo, Mariano and the third goalkeeper (Toni Fuidias in Paris and Diego Piñeiro against Alavés) have been the victims in recent games. This time the coach has called 24 players, so he will only have to leave one in the Vallecas stands.
Possible eleven for Real Madrid against Rayo Vallecano in the League.
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Possible eleven for Ancelotti for Rayo Vallecano-Real Madrid in the League
With this context, Ancelotti can line up practically his gala eleven from the start in Vallecas, except for Alaba, whose place will be taken by Nacho, a regular in these events. Madrid can start the match against Rayo Vallecano with this starting eleven: Courtois; Carvajal, Militao, Nacho, Mendy; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Asensio, Benzema and Vinicius. The white coach will have to make a discard to leave 12 players on the bench. They complete the summoned list: Lunin, Luis López; Vallejo, Marcelo, Camavinga, Valverde, Ceballos, Isco, Lucas Vázquez, Rodrygo, Hazard, Jovic and Mariano.