Saturday, November 30, 2024, 18:01
Real Madrid is presented with a golden opportunity to breathe down Barça’s neck in the League and thereby make up for its hardships in the Champions League. The defeat of the Barça team against Las Palmas provides an excellent opportunity for the team led by Carlo Ancelotti to continue cutting ground on the leader and heal in the regularity tournament part of the wounds that opened the debacle experienced against Liverpool in the highest continental competition . To achieve this, they will have to overcome Getafe, who has not scored at the Bernabéu for 16 years and goes to the event as one of the worst visitors in the First Division. An a priori scenario conducive for the locals to achieve a victory that is necessary as a catharsis.
“You have to endure the moment with a good attitude and commitment, because good things are yet to come,” said Carlo Ancelotti even before learning of the third consecutive failure in the League of a leader that Real Madrid sees as getting closer and closer. The whites will start with a four-point disadvantage, but with two games less than their main opponent, which would allow them to complete the ‘sorpasso’ if they do not fail in their pending commitments. The objective of the current champion is to intensify the chase by achieving victory in front of their fans this Sunday, before tackling four consecutive outings, three of them in the League and another in the Champions League, within a marathon that will take Ancelotti’s men to play seven games in 22 days.
«The team dynamic has improved in the last two league games, but we must keep in mind that we are missing many players. The idea of being patient is the right one,” Carletto highlighted in the preview, who has been arguing for some time that his squad will fight for all the titles as always despite the criticism received for a lackluster game and the disappointing performance of Mbappé, whom he once again criticized. support a coach who attributed the difficulties to a “collective problem” and “not an individual” problem for the ‘9’.
«Mbappé’s problem is the one we all have. The idea is to try to bring out our best version, of him, of myself, of other players… The problem is with a team that at the moment has not been able to have continuity in the season and bring out its best version,” he explained. Carletto, who declared himself “justly concerned.” “It gives me confidence that the team is beginning to defend well, because it is the basic thing in football,” he specified before “a demanding match” against Getafe, “as always against the Bordalás teams.”
Two teams decimated
Real Madrid will face this dispute, decimated by the losses of Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Tchouaméni, Camavinga and Vinicius, but with the happy news of the return of Rodrygo. Three weeks after being injured again against Osasuna, the ’11’ is ready to reappear against Getafe. His return could be key with the loss of Vinicius and the bad moment that Mbappé is going through.
With Lucas Vázquez again at right back, Valverde will return to a midfield in which Modric and Bellingham are fixed, and in which Ceballos seems to have an advantage over Arda Güler after the Turk’s poor performance at Anfield. Asencio, who once again claimed his place on English soil, will have a place in a rearguard in which Fran García is expected to replace Mendy. The presence in the call of two defenders from La Fábrica, Loren and Diego Aguado, and Chema Andrés, a tall 19-year-old pivot from Castilla who Ancelotti already called up for the visit to Anoeta and who is in the ‘white house’, stands out. They see a potential Rodri.
A Getafe team that has not gotten anything clear from the Bernabéu since February 2008, when they attacked it with a goal from Ikechukwu Uche, will have to face all of these elements. Like Real Madrid, the Azulones arrive at the match weakened. José Bordalás will not be able to count on Djené and Bertug Yildirim, who are suspended, nor with Carles Aleñá and Borja Mayoral, who are injured.
Getafe, who have only scratched two points away from home so far in the League, have just beaten Valladolid at the Coliseum with goals from Álvaro Rodríguez and Nyom, and beaten Manises in the Cup, where they will face each other on Thursday with Orihuela. El Toro, whose loan from Real Madrid does not contain a fear clause, threatens a team to which he dreams of returning after making ten appearances under Ancelotti, but in which he failed to establish himself.
-Probable alignments:
Real Madrid: Courtois, Lucas Vázquez, Asencio, Rüdiger, Fran García, Valverde, Modric, Ceballos, Bellingham, Brahim and Mbappé.
Getafe: Soria, Nyom, Duarte, Alderete, Diego Rico, Carles Perez, Milla, Arambarri, Alex Sola, Uche and Alvaro Rodriguez.
Referee: Hernández Hernández (Las Palmas Committee).
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Stadium: Santiago Bernabéu.
TV: Dazn.
