Without Ramos or Varane; chance for chust

Real Madrid returned to work after the two and a half days off that Zidane gave to the squad after the stumble in the Spanish Super Cup against Athletic last Thursday. The news in training this Sunday afternoon in Valdebebas was the absence of the two starting centrals, Sergio Ramos and Varane.

The captain played the Málaga game undercover and left La Rosaleda limping, while the Frenchman had to be substituted at half-time after receiving a heavy stomp. Neither of them will be next Wednesday against Alcoyano in the Copa del Rey (Wednesday, 9:00 p.m., Telecinco and DAZN). Zizou is confident that he will be able to count on both of them again for the League match against Alavés in Mendizorroza on Saturday (9:00 p.m., Movistar LaLiga).

Faced with these casualties, the French coach has called Víctor Chust, the Valencian central defender of Castilla who will be called up in the Cup, although presumably it will be Nacho and Militao who will occupy the center of defense. Antonio Blanco was also with the first team, midfielder of the subsidiary, who has many options to play a few minutes against Alcoyano.

Madrid will still have two more training sessions (Monday and Tuesday) to prepare for its debut in the Copa del Rey, in a game in which Zidane plans many rotations after in recent games he has relied on a small group of players and barely has moved their lineups.