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A large part of Real Madrid’s title options are at stake at Nuevo Los Cármenes against a Granada this Thursday. Zidane’s team has been haunted by injuries in a black season, with only three defenders available from the first team and one of them “touched.”
📋✅ Our summoned for the match 🆚 @ GranadaCdeF ! # GranadaRealMadrid pic.twitter.com/aMgUTPTh0l
– Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) May 12, 2021
The white entity crumbles in this season finale, in the that Real Madrid looks like a hospital due to the overload of matches and some infected with COVID – 19 that several games have been lost this season.
No margin of error or
The moment LaLiga is decided, Real Madrid falls apart in the end of the season, in which he only has one win in the last three days. Two home draws, against Betis and Sevilla, which prevented him from making the leap to the leadership to depend on himself.
With Barcelona feeling their resignation to the title after drawing against Levante , the pulse is settled with Atlético de Madrid. The margin of error has been exhausted for the Madrid team who face their visit to Granada with the obligation to win and prove the reasons that they drive as the second best visitor of the championship. His main problem comes in an infield defense.
Kills in the defensive zone
Without Dani Carvajal and Lucas Vázquez on the right side; Sergio Ramos and Raphael Varane in the center of the rear; Ferland Mendy and Marcelo on the left side. The casualties that do not stop in a year full of misfortunes , leave Zidane with only Militao and Nacho as healthy defenders. Álvaro Odriozola will force to be after finishing the duel against Sevilla with an overload. The youth squad Miguel Gutiérrez will have to occupy a lane.
Mendy’s medical report .#Real Madrid
– Real Madrid CF (@realmadrid) May 11, 2021
Marco Asensio had it in the last appointment and a novelty is emerging in an offensive trident to which he can return Eden Hazard . After scoring the goal that avoided goodbye in injury time against Sevilla, the Belgian plays the title with the Brazilian Vinicius, again in a bump and without finding the solution to his problems in defining the plays.
⚽️ @ ToniKroos puts it to @ hazardeden 11 , which equals for locals @ RealMadrid 2-2 @ SevillaFC # RealMadridSevillaFC ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/nsvY6NueD3
– beIN SPORTS Spanish (@ESbeINSPORTS) May 9, 2021
Granada will play without pressure
Granada, no longer options to qualify for the Europa League , aims to be as high as possible in the rankings after a campaign as brilliant as it is full of matches. Against Real Madrid they will play their official match number 56 of the season and faces it with a multitude of casualties.
His technician, Diego Martínez , sees the dream possible of repeating the seventh place of last season by winning in the field of Barcelona (1-2), although those continental options have disappeared after losing in their last two games against Cádiz (0-1) and Betis (2-1 ).
⚽️ They leave a gift for @ Darwin_Machis , which evening for the visit @ RealBetis 1-1 @ GranadaCdeF # RealBetisGranada ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/dIcewtXLEi
– beIN SPORTS Spanish (@ESbeINSPORTS) May 10, 2021
Diego Martínez will have to juggle, once again, to make a starting lineup of guarantees since he could face the crash with up to a dozen casualties. Eight players will safely miss the game: the injured Jesús Vallejo, Carlos Neva, Luis Milla, Ángel Montoro, the Brazilian Robert Kenedy and the Colombian Neyder Lozano, the sanctioned Roberto Soldado and for being with Víctor Díaz coronavirus.
In addition, the contest of the Venezuelan media Yangel Herrera and the Portuguese central Domingos Duarte, two key players for the coach, who had to retire with physical problems from the last game against Betis . Everything indicates that they will return to eleven players such as the Cameroonian Yan Eteki or the Argentine Nehuén Pérez, while the foreseeable thing is that Aarón Escandell will remain under the sticks after his last good performances.
Given the numerous problems of personnel in the midfield, the normal thing would have been that Diego Martínez will bet on a rear of three defenders and two lanes, but he also has a low number of centers available, so both the starting eleven and the drawing to be used by Granada in the clash are unknown.
With Information from EFE