Other La Liga game for Los Blancos
La Liga appears again on Real Madrid’s calendar. Ancelotti’s men visit Villarreal this Saturday in a day that can undo the tie (38 points) that the whites maintain in the lead with Barcelona before both embark on the dispute of the Spanish Super Cup. The Blaugrana visit Atletico on Sunday at the Civitas Metropolitano, so Madrid have a golden opportunity to put pressure on their eternal rival.
Ancelotti has three players out for the game: Mariano, Odriozola and Carvajal . The striker, who in the last two weeks has suffered from a slight ankle sprain, trained alone on the eve of the game. The two defenders worked out in the gym. The man from San Sebastian could not finish the match against Cacereno on Tuesday, while the man from Leganes did not come to train with the group after the game in Valladolid.
Carvajal can’t play this time!
This absence of Carvajal is the only imponderable that prevents Ancelotti from lining up his gala eleven in Vila-real. “A fresh team is going to play, most of those who didn’t play against Cacereño are going to play ,” Carletto said at the previous press conference. The Italian left clues in the Cup with the eight players he left in Madrid (among whom was Carvajal) and the four (Tchouameni, Militao, Rudiger and Valverde) whom he only ‘wasted’ 45 minutes at the Príncipe Felipe. Lucas Vázquez is the only one of those who will start in Vila-real who played the 90 minutes in the KO tournament.