2024-02-03 06:25:31
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Dani Carvajal (Reuters)
Real Madrid will host Atletico Madrid tomorrow (Sunday, 22:00) for an exciting derby at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Blancos arrive very bruised at the back, with Antonio Rudiger in great doubt for the game and Orleans Tshoumani suspended, and as I remember Eder Militau and David Alaba injured.
The two starting stoppers tore their cruciate ligaments and in their absence Antonio Rudiger led the defense for the most part alongside Nacho, with Tshuamani serving as backup. In the absence of the suspended Frenchman and possibly without the German, Carlo Ancelotti will join immediately and in Spain it is believed that David Alaba and Perlan Mendy may play as stoppers, hoping that Rudiger will be fit and then only one of them will have to play out of his natural position.
Real has a tight game schedule in the near future, when after Atlético they have a game against Girona from the top and then the Blancos will play against Leipzig in the first game of the round of 16 of the Champions League in Germany.
Antonio Rudiger (Reuters)
The leaders of the Spanish league want to believe that Rudiger will be fit for the game against the Colchoneros, but it won’t be easy. If he is absent, then Ancelotti’s “plan C”, as it is called in the Spanish media, will be Carvajal and Mendy who have no experience in this position.
Carvajal never started as a stopper and recorded only enough minutes in this position against Chelsea in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in a season in which the team won the cup for its 14th time, when Nacho was injured: “In Carvajal’s minutes as a stopper he suffered a lot”, they recalled in Spain.
The Blancos are now paying for the decision not to add a stopper in the winter transfer window: “Mendy may start as a stopper above all because he is a defensive player, and absolutely not because he has the qualities of a stopper, when there is even a chance that they will do it with Federico Valverde,” Marca wrote ‘.
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