After suffering their first defeat of the season against Leipzig in the Champions League, the Whites will look to extend their great dynamism in the League against a team in trouble
The end of a very positive series can also be the beginning of another, no less benevolent. That is the spirit with which Real Madrid welcome Girona. After suffering their first defeat of the season on Tuesday when they lost in the Champions League to Leipzig, Carlo Ancelotti’s team are looking to clean up the slate to continue the great dynamism that keeps the Whites as powerful governors of the League.
Still undefeated after 11 days in the championship, where they conceded only a draw, Chamartín’s team will try to hit the table again at the Santiago Bernabéu. A fortress that the red and white team surrendered on their last visit to the Paseo de la Castellana with goals from Stuani and Portu, and which will now gauge the maturity of a recently returned to First Division who arrives full of emergencies because he is in the red. zone of the table, but which offers an attractive and courageous approach.
“He plays well. He likes to have the ball and has a good attacking organization. We have to defend well because they handle the ball well,” Carlo Ancelotti warned in the preview of a lawsuit that Real Madrid will go to with the aim of changing it. , after falling victim to a voltage drop in Germany that punished Leipzig, whose siesta for the whites will force them to leave on Sunday afternoon, when there are only three days left before the regularity tournament ends due to the World Cup in Qatar and on the way back into uncharted territory.
For this, Real Madrid will once again have to live with the loss of Benzema, who continues without restoring good feelings. Despite the club reporting at the time that he only suffered muscle fatigue in the quadriceps of his left leg, the recent Ballon d’Or will lose three games in a row and the total number of crashes that will see him in drydock so far are six. are in the campaign as he has already missed three others in the month of September due to an accident to his right thigh.
It is true that Ancelotti’s troops have not fared badly without their commander in chief, with the aforementioned setback against Leipzig being the only blemish he noted on his campaign sheet when the ‘9’ was largely absent, the scoring contribution of second swords such as Valverde or Vinicius and the reliability of Rodrygo as a substitute striker. But this time things get complicated as the ex-Santos player is in bed after suffering from a stomach problem that prevented him from training on Saturday.
Ancelotti put Rodrygo in the call and all indications are that he will appear with the eleven, but otherwise the Italian would have to resort to Hazard, Mariano or Asensio to complete an offensive front to which Valverde returns, like Modric to the engine room . Ceballos, who cut recovery deadlines after suffering an injury against Osasuna, is one of the novelties on Real Madrid’s list for a rushed but thorny confrontation with an opponent.
Not surprisingly, Girona shows off something few teams can: keep a poised balance in their matches against an all-powerful rival. Real Madrid and the red and white team have faced each other four times in the competition, with two wins each. Stuani and Portu gave victory five years ago with their goals in Montilivi to a team that had its first season in the top tier of Spanish football against a side that had just signed a Liga-Champions League double. And the following season, the Bernabeu saw the local side fall to their knees against a team that was once again elevated by the goals of Stuani and Portu, only to be eventually relegated.
The Murcian attacker is now in the ranks of Getafe, but the Argentine striker reappears as a threat to Real Madrid in his capacity as a luxury substitute for a Girona side that has racked up six games without winning but giving up nothing. “I’m not signing the draw,” said Míchel, who eliminates Kebe, Juanpe, Borja García and Samu Saiz. The coach, on the other hand, will be able to count on Miguel Gutiérrez, transferred from Real Madrid to the Girona club in the summer, but whose ‘white house’ retains 50% of the rights, as well as Reinier, transferred without ‘the clause of fear’ for Real Madrid and whose class begins to appear in Girona, after two courses with barely minutes at Borussia Dortmund.
Source: La Verdad
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