The French striker has not entered the call to visit the Alicante team, against whom the meringues play today on the occasion of LaLiga matchday 12. He had not missed a match in the domestic competition without injury in more than two years.
Karim Benzema is a fundamental piece in Real Madrid and that is why Carlo Ancelotti has decided to give him rest against Elche, where the starter is a Mariano Díaz, who will have his first minutes of the season after the Italian has decided to put him in front of the starting eleven before Luka Jovic.
The one from Lyon did not stay without playing a LaLiga match by rest since September 25, 2019, when the meringues beat Osasuna (2-0) with the Frenchman on the bench. We have to go back to the end of the section of the 2016-17 academic year to see the previous three.
With this decision, Carlo Ancelotti tries to dose his main piece in attack and in the team itself, who has 11 goals and 8 assists in the first 13 games of the season. The goal will be to keep him fresh to welcome Shakhtar Donetsk and try to start qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League this Wednesday.
In LaLiga, after receiving the Ukrainians, they will do the same with a Rayo Vallecano who has just beaten FC Barcelona (1-0) and continues to surprise, occupying the seventh place in the table in the middle of the fight for European places. After this, the national team stoppage will force to see Karim Benzema with the selection receiving Kazakhstan and if Les Bleus They have not sealed their presence in the next World Cup yet, visiting Finland.
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