The Frenchman rejoined the rest of his teammates after five days off. Hazard trained with the rest of the group. Marcelo, Bale and Alba rush to be against Betis.
The situation
A few minutes after 9 in the morning, Karim Benzema entered the Valdebebas facilities. The French thus put an end to a special permit that Carlo Ancelotti granted him last week for five days of vacation, in order for him to rest with a view to the final week of Real Madrid. A week that will begin this Friday the 20th, when they face Betis in the last League match (9:00 p.m.) and, above all, the Champions League final on May 28 in Paris against Liverpool, which they have taken to the extent. Not surprisingly, he is the top white scorer against the Reds in the history of the European Cup.The Frenchman adds four of the 10 white goals achieved in the last decade in the clashes between Liverpool and the Madridistas. They are followed by Vinicius and Bale, with a brace each, Cristiano and Asensio. Thus, Ancelotti already has almost his entire squad available. Some footballers, wanting to fine-tune their set-up even more, went to work last Monday and to be evaluated by doctors and physios , in the case of Lunin, Casemiro, Ceballos and Vallejo, who had played in Cádiz the day before. Like Hazard, who trained perfectly with the rest of his teammates after finishing the match against Cádiz with a blow.
The details
The Belgian had good news yesterday when he was summoned by Roberto Martínez for the four games of the League of Nations next June. Marcelo, Alaba and Bale went to exercise (all three did specific work) and to be checked by the club’s physios. The captain will be able to get to the Betis game which, if things don’t change, will be his last game at the Bernabéu as a player for the first white team. The Austrian was checked after his good feelings in Wednesday’s training, and everything indicates that he may be available for the match against Verdiblanca. The case of the Welshman, for his part, is that for the moment he is doubtful to play against Betis, but he is not ruled out. On Thursday, in the last session, he will get rid of doubts…