The Croat’s last-minute absence for reasons not specified by the club adds to those of the injured Benzema, Valverde, Ceballos and Mariano.
Another setback for Carlo Ancelotti ahead of the match between Real Madrid and RB Leipzig on Tuesday at the Red Bull Arena. The Chamartín club announced this Monday that Luka Modric will withdraw from the match corresponding to the fifth day of the Champions League group stage for reasons not specified.
The Croat was called up for the game in which the Whites, with the qualification for the round of 16 already sealed after the draw two weeks ago against Shakhtar Donetsk, will try to score at least one point to secure their place first in the group. . But in the end, the Balkans, who started last Saturday against Sevilla and completed 77 minutes before leaving his position to Marco Asensio, have not taken the plane that brings the fourteen-time European champion to the German city and thus become the fifth absence Ancelotti has to manage in the light of the lawsuit with the team led by Marco Rose.
“Luka Modric will not play the match between Real Madrid and Leipzig, which corresponds to match day 5 of the group stage of the Champions League, which takes place tomorrow at the RB Arena. The Croat was one of those summoned by Ancelotti for this match, but he is absent at the last minute and will not travel with the team to Leipzig,” said the note issued by Real Madrid, explaining the reason for the midfielder’s absence. is not described .
It should be remembered that, in addition to Modric’s, Real Madrid suffered significant losses for this match from Benzema, who already missed the Whites’ League game against Sevilla due to muscle fatigue in the quadriceps of his left leg, and from Fede Valverde, who received a heavy tackle from Papu Gómez in that match and bears a heavy blow which, however, should not prevent him from being available for Ancelotti for Sunday’s league game against Girona.
In addition, the Real Madrid coach still cannot count on the injured Ceballos, in the final stretch of his recovery, and Mariano. For all these reasons, Ancelotti included youth players Sergio Arribas, Carlos Dotor and Álvaro Rodríguez in the expedition, the latter of whom, a lanky Spanish-Uruguayan striker they’ve pinned great hopes on in Valdebebas, has already been called up against Sevilla.
Source: La Verdad
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