As the rest of the First Division teams have been doing these days, the Madrid squad underwent the coronavirus tests last Friday, just 48 hours before facing Eibar, on the return to the league competition. Already the white template underwent the same tests and an exhaustive medical examination at the beginning of May, just before starting this mini preseason to finish the 11 matches of the league championship that remain to be resolved.
The players arrived in Valdebebas to start the penultimate training session, a session held at the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium. from 19:30, so that the players get used to the time when they will meet Eibar. But before it all went through the tests, even the players who are injured, in the case of Nacho, Jovic and Mariano Lucas Vázquez fell victim to a muscle overload in the last training session before the game against the gunslinger.
As the Santiago Bernabéu stadium is closed for renovation, Zidane summoned those summoned for this Sunday morning in Valdebebas at 12:00 in the morning. The coach wants the players to be before lunch, they will do it there, and rest in the Madrid facilities before returning to the competition.
We must remember how much Madrid's football and basketball squads were quarantined after giving Trey Thompkins a positive result after playing a Euroleague match in Milan on March 12. Once the news was known, both teams left the White Club facilities with haste. Since then, and while the quarantine lasted, the club's medical services were pending for the players, families and other members. They have already passed several controls to know if they are positive or not. The last one, last Friday.