Wednesday's game against Manchester City turned out to be much easier than expected for Real Madrid, who won 3-1 in the Santiago Bernabeu. That resulted in the place of the defending champion in the last 16 of the Champions League, where they are confronted with Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen-de Trekking is Friday.
It was a fairly comfortable evening for Los Blancos, which gave a 3-2 aggregated lead of last week's first stage in the Etihad Stadium, and that reached 5-2 in the Bernabeu after a brace by Kylian Mbappe, that That would, go on the complete hat trick in the second half.
Only when the match was fully completed as a competition that Carlo Ancelotti turned to his substitutes's bank. Dani Ceballos and Mbappe were withdrawn at 78 minutes to be replaced by Eduardo Camavinga and Brahim Diaz, while further changes Luka Modric, David Alaba and Endrick Felipe brought to the last stages of the procedure.
In the end there was no opportunity to Arda Guler, whose minutes were scarce in recent months. He cannot be seen in one of the five of the last six Real Madrid games in all matches, with his only performance today in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals victory over Leganes, for which he was a starter and played 76 minutes.
The decision not to introduce Guler in Wednesday's game against Man City is confronted with contempt in the home country of Türkiye, according to Diario ALS. They could not believe that their national hero could not even get minutes in the dying phases when the match was already completed.
The growing feeling of Guler's supporters is that he has to leave Real Madrid to get regular minutes. A recent report has stated that the 19-year-old is willing to leave in the summer if his situation does not change, which does not seem to be happening for the time being.
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