Benzema maintains the hope of playing in Liverpool. Ancelotti included Karim in the squad to face the Red team despite the fact that the French striker missed the game against Osasuna and this Sunday he only did part of the training session with his teammates. Those who do not travel to England are Kroos and Tchouameni. The German has not recovered from the gastroenteritis that prevented him from playing against Elche and Osasuna and the Frenchman is suffering from a flu that also caused him to miss the match in Pamplona. To these two are added the casualties of Mendy and Mariano.
Ancelotti has taken 23 players on the expedition, including four players from Castilla. alvaro rodriguez travel again with the first team after his impressive league debut last Saturday. The Italian coach takes two other Castilla players present with some frequency in his calls, Mario Martín and Arribas, as well as Luis Lópezwho usually goes with the team as the third goalkeeper.
Call-up of Carlo Ancelotti for Liverpool-Real Madrid
goalkeepers: Courtois, Lunin and Luis Lopez.
defenses: Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Vallejo, Nacho, Odriozola, Lucas Vázquez and Rüdiger.
Midfielders: Modric, Camavinga, Valverde, Ceballos, Mario Martin and Arribas.
strikers: Hazard, Benzema, Asensio, Vinicius, Rodrigo and Alvaro Rodriguez.
Real Madrid’s plan in Liverpool
The white expedition takes off from Madrid at 11:00 a.m. and is scheduled to land in Liverpool at 1:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m. local time). The players will stay at the Innside Hotel, just four kilometers from Anfield. there they will be this afternoon the official press conferences for Ancelotti and a player (7:15 p.m. Spanish time) and then (8:00 p.m.) the last training session of the European champion before the match.
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