The visit to Manchester City is approaching and Madrid prepared this Wednesday the assault on the comeback in their second training session after the week of rest that Zidane granted to his players after conquering Liga 34 and finishing the championship. The French coach had all his men except for Mariano, who remains isolated at home after testing positive for COVID-19 in the tests that the entire squad underwent before returning to work.
The physical work copied the session that took place in capos 1 and 2 of Valdebebas, with resistance exercises, sprints and explosiveness.. There was also tactical work with the ball and the team closed the training with a match.
The team will return to the Valdebebas facilities tomorrow, Thursday at 11:00, eight days after the game in which the whites will have to overcome the 1-2 harvested by those of Pep Guardiola in the first leg to go to the 'final eight' that will be played in Lisbon. A match for which Sergio Ramos in the white ranks and Benjamin Mendy in the skyblue. The match will be played behind closed doors on Friday 7 August (21:00, Movistar Champions League) at the Etihad Stadium.