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Soccer 2023 | Frantic start of football in 2023: Real Madrid will play 17 games in 60 days

The echoes of the World Cup are still heard and Argentina is recovering from the hangover of its world champion title when club football resumes. This Thursday LaLiga resumes in Spain with a Girona-Rayo Vallecano, Betis-Athletic and a Atlético-Elche with the focus on Simeone and Joao Félix. The day will extend to the 30th (in which Madrid plays), and to the early afternoon of the 31st, where there will be games with short trips for visitors, including the derby in Barcelona between parrots and the Catalans.

17 games in 60 days

Thus begins 2023 with which it will have a frantic start because in the next two months matches of the League, Cup, Spanish Super Cup, Champions League and the Club World Cup will alternate indiscriminately. Real Madrid, which participates in all these competitions, He will play 17 games in the next 60 days if he reaches the Super Cup and Mundialito finals. A real test of strength for Carlo Ancelotti’s men, who has spent many seasons warning about the demands of the calendar for footballers.

Something that invites us to think that Madrid’s B unit, the one made up of Lucas, Nacho, Camavinga, Ceballos, Hazard, Asensio or Mariano, will have their chance to vindicate themselves and assert themselves against such a demanding schedule. Carletto, who this season has openly opted for rotations, since He warned before the World Cup that when he returned from Qatar he would rest the players who had gone to the World Cup, “to gradually introduce them into the dynamics of the team’s game”. This Friday the whites say goodbye to a memorable 2022 in Valladolid measuring themselves against the pucelanos, and then go to Extremadura to face Cacereño in the Cup.

In Madrid there is calm regarding the issue of departures and entries in the January market, but in other teams such as Barcelona there is a struggle between Joan Laporta and the coach, Xavi Hernández, to continue reinforcing the squad in the face of what remainder of season The January market will be another of the attractions in this restart of the 2022-23 season, that with this winter break due to the World Cup break in Qatar has forced a change in the strategy of the teams in the preparation plans. Barcelona will defend their leadership against Espanyol while looking askance at the offices, as there are players who are questioned and could be on the starting ramp if the club can place them like Kessie. Raphinha and Ferran also have to take a step forward because, for now, they have not justified the club’s investment in their signings.

The Spanish Super Cup, which will be played again in Saudi Arabia, will bring together Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Betis and Valencia from January 11 to 15. And the Champions will appear on the calendar again on February 14, with the only Spanish participation of the whites, who will also be in the Club World Cup, which will be played between February 1 and 11 in Morocco. A major challenge for Ancelotti’s men, who already made it clear after winning the European Super Cup that he will try to win the ‘sextet’.

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