Unstitched in the rear axis after the tear in the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee that David Alaba suffered during the match played last Sunday against Villarreal at the Santiago Bernabéu, Real Madrid visits Mendizorroza this Thursday to face Alavés of Rafa Marín, the ‘blackbird’ that the whites gave last summer to do his ‘military’ in Primera with a view to his possible return to Chamartín.
The central defender born 21 years ago in Guadajoz (Seville) was very close to joining Betis, but the operation was cut short because Heliópolis wanted to have a purchase option that the rectors of the ‘white house’ did not contemplate, as they appreciated his wood. enough for him to land in the first team squad for the 2024-25 season. That’s where Alavés came into action, accepting the outright loan offered by Real Madrid and allowing it to grow to the point of becoming one of the defensive bastions of the team led by Luis García Plaza on the wing. The Andalusian will have the opportunity to showcase himself this Thursday against the club where he spent seven years and which still owns his rights, precisely when the whites have opened their central casting.
«We have spoken with the club, we will evaluate it in the coming days. We have time because the market ends on January 31 and we are going to look for the best possible solution. We will try to finish well tomorrow and then we have time to make the best possible decision,” Carlo Ancelotti said in the preview when he was asked if he was going to ask Florentino Pérez for reinforcements in the defensive area, given that he only has two center backs available. : Rüdiger and Nacho. “If there is a possibility that we think is good for the club and for the squad, we are going to do it,” said the one from Reggiolo, whose intention, which obviously involves rearming, may come into conflict with the war economy that is being carried out. the entity to go after some star next summer.
In the Real Madrid offices, the files of the Portuguese Antonio Silva (Benfica) and Gonçalo Inácio (Sporting de Portugal), as well as that of the Italian Giorgio Scalvini (Atalanta), are prominently displayed, all of them young people who seem sufficiently prepared to give the jump, but whose high price complicates arrival in winter, a market that Real Madrid does not like in the least.
Ancelotti wants an experienced veteran or an emerging but seasoned talent to offer immediate performance because he rightly fears the January slope, despite the excellent performance that his squad is offering in response to the string of injuries that is hitting it. If they find something good, nice and cheap, which is difficult in the hyperinflationary football market, he may see his desire satisfied. But as he ruminates that his pleas may fall on deaf ears, he has already pointed out Tchouaméni as a patch.
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Rüdiger and Nacho will start in slimy lands but, just in case, the one from Ruan will be prepared to watch their backs. «Tchouaméni does not like to play as a center back, just as Camavinga does not like to play as a winger. In the emergency he has played very well as a center back and he knows that if there is an emergency he will play as a center back,” said Carletto, who also announced Kepa’s ownership and warned of a decision regarding the goal after the Christmas break.
“Tomorrow Kepa is going to play and then, for the second part of the season, I am going to choose one of the two,” concluded the coach of a team that has only conceded eleven goals in the first seventeen games, numbers not seen in Chamartín since the 1971-72 campaign. Courtois, Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy, Camavinga, Arda Güler and Vinicius are absent for the event. Joselu, who did not train this Wednesday due to a fever, finally entered a list with five ‘blackbirds’: Fran González, Raúl Asencio, Vinicius Tobias, Nico Paz and Gonzalo.
Overcoming the wall that the whites have built is the challenge that is presented to Alavés three days after being beaten by Girona, the other rooster in the League. It was “the worst game of the season”, in the words of Luis García Plaza, who will once again sit on the Albiazul bench after serving a suspension in Montilivi and recovers Abqar, who was also punished against the Catalan team due to an accumulation of yellow cards. The return of the Moroccan center back is a relief for a team that has just suffered two consecutive defeats and sees the zone that delimits relegation close. They need to react, but the precedents do not invite optimism, since Alavés have only scored four times at home against Real Madrid.
-Probable alignments:
Alavés: Sivera, Gorosabel, Rafa Marín, Duarte, Abqar, Javi López, Antonio Blanco, Guridi, Guevara, Rioja and Samu Omorodion.
Real Madrid: Kepa, Lucas Vázquez, Rüdiger, Nacho, Fran García, Valverde, Kroos, Modric, Bellingham, Brahim and Rodrygo.
Referee: Diaz de Mera (Spanish-Manchego Committee).
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Stadium: Mendizorroza.
TV: DAZN.
2023-12-20 15:50:16
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