They play Odriozola, Militao and a Hazard looking for a full ninety minutes

Updated:01/30/2021 15:09h

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28 days later Real Madrid returns to the Alfredo Di Stéfano stadium to play La Liga and continue a winning streak at home, five, that it was broken with the draws in Pamplona and Elche and with the defeats in the Cup against Alcoyano and in the Spanish Super Cup against Athletic.

Bettoni, who makes his debut at home as Madrid’s first coach, will play against Levante with this scheme: Courtois; Odriozola, Varane, Militao, Mendy; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Asensio, Benzema, Hazard.

The Levante lineup: Aitor Fernández, Miramón, Duarte, Postigo, Clerc, Radoja, Malsa, Melero, Morales, Sergio León and Roger.

Hazard will add another game in this long recovery process. The good goal he scored in Mendizorroza has given him morale to look for more goal. Zidane and Bettoni want the Belgian to feel good to finally play a full match, a challenge that has not been successful since November 23, 2019, when Meunier broke his leg. Since then he has added 22 games and none complete.

The current league champion will try to extend the streak of five consecutive victories in Valdebebas: Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-0), Atlético de Madrid (2-0), Athletic (3-1), Granada (2-0) and Celta (2-0). In this series of matches, the team scored eleven goals and suffered one.

Those five victories coincided with a great moment of Benzema, author of five goals in these meetings, including two of his four doubles this season. The rest of the Madrid goals were the work of Casemiro (2), Kroos, Asensio, Lucas and one on his own goal, which the referee considered this way after the Carvajal’s whiplash in the derby he hit the post and on Oblak’s back.

The team led by Bettoni faces Levante with many casualties. The first, that of Zidane, in quarantine due to the coronavirus, which forces his assistant to take command on the bench. Nacho will also be absent due to Covid. They are both at home and in good health. And the team also has five injured: the captain, Sergio Ramos, plus Carvajal, Rodrygo, Valverdeand Lucas Vázquez. With so many inconveniences, three Castilla players, all of them starters for Raul, have entered the call. The central Khust and the midfielders Blanco and Arribas.

Exposed on eleven, this is the call:

Goalkeepers: Courtois, Lunin and Altube.

Defenses: Militao, Varane, Marcelo, Odriozola, Mendy and Chust.

Midfielders: Kroos, Modric, Casemiro, Isco, Arribas and White.

Forwards: Hazard, Benzema, Asensio, Vinicius and Mariano.

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