The victory of Barcelona in Leganes on Saturday means that Real Madrid has to respond when they accept Alaves on Sunday afternoon in their last La Liga -resistant value. The gap between the two teams has opened a maximum of seven points and Los Blancos will be happy to bring it back to four in Mendizorroza.
Real Madrid is still staggering from back-to-back defeats against Valencia and Arsenal, so a bounce back is absolutely necessary in Vitoria. And with that in mind, Carlo Ancelotti is not expected to make many changes from the team that started earlier in the week in North Londen.
According to Marca, it is expected that there will only be two changes: Aurelien Tchouameni, who was suspended against Arsenal, will have to return instead of Antonio Rudiger, while Lucas will play Vazquez instead of David Alaba-Dit would go to midfield, with Eduardo Camaveda at Left-Back.
Alaves won brilliant in Girona the previous time -out, and they will look at a new shock on their home grass. But they will be without goalkeeper Antonio Sivera, who serves a suspension of one match after collecting his fifth La Liga Yellow card of the season in Montilivi. Jesus Owono will replace him, and further changes are expected to start Nahuel Tenaglia and Carles Alena instead of Moussa Diarra and Jon Guridi, who will also serve a suspension.
Real Madrid is not happy with fulfilling this luminaire on Sunday, since Champions League rivals Arsenal were in action on Saturday. But that doesn't matter much for the match against Alaves itself, which is a must-win in front of Ancelotti. It is still to be seen whether the will of Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham will step on the Mendizorroza.
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