Real Madrid does not plan to sign anyone at the moment to replace its Brazilian centre-back Éder Militão, who broke his cruciate again in the white team’s match yesterday Saturday against Osasuna at the Bernabéu and will be sidelined from the playing field for nine months. The club’s idea is to hold out until the Christmas break with what it has and depending on whether it has been able to recover David Alaba and how the results have gone, evaluate whether or not to sign a central defender.
Madrid has reached this conclusion after analyzing what happened last season, in which they ended up winning the League and the Champions League despite having three players with cruciate fractures during it: Militão, Courtois and Alaba.
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The defense in box
The situation right now is serious in defense, where casualties are accumulating. For the next match, on Sunday the 24th in Butarque against Leganés, Madrid will not be able to count on Carvajal, Lucas Vázquez, Militão, Tchouaméni or Alaba (apart from Rodrygo). The solution is to move Valverde to the right back, form a center back pairing with Rüdiger and Mendy or Rüdiger and the youth squad Raúl Asencio, who already made his debut against Osasuna and did well, and leave Mendy or Fran García for the left back. .
From midfield forward, Ancelotti has a very good team. He can form a line of four with Camavinga, Modric, Bellingham and Brahim and two forwards like Vinícius and Mbappé. And he would still have players like Arda Güler, Endrick or Ceballos on the bench.
In the next few hours the extent of Lucas Vázquez and Rodrigo’s injuries will be known, which is expected in around a month. In any case, this season injuries at Real Madrid are at historic highs. Until the match against Osasuna, there were 16 injured, which would be 19 if we count Alaba, who has been injured since the previous season, plus two youth players who went on the summer tour with the first team: Joan Martínez, with a cruciate fracture , and Jacobo Ramón. The latter could be available in a couple of weeks.
Tchouaméni is expected at the end of the month or perhaps a little earlier. With David Alaba there is more uncertainty. The Austrian has been running on the grass for a week, but the club does not want to take risks and there is still no date for his reappearance.
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