Real Madrid needs all the hands on deck to complete an incredible Champions League against Arsenal on Wednesday.
The Spanish giants, however, were hit by internal chaos prior to the crunch quarterfinal draw.
The first stage at the Emirates saw the 15-way European champions pursue after a second half of Blitz by the gunners led by two shameful free kicks of Declan Rice.
Carlo Ancelotti shouted calmly for the reverse leg in the Bernabeu, but it seems that the message was not completed to his distracted multi-million pound stars.
Los Blancos returned to winning ways with a 1-0 win at Alaves on Sunday, even though Kylian Mbappe was broadcast for a horror tackle when he went diving with his studs and Antonio Blanco High caught his shin.
Training for the game was just chaotic for the Ancelotti team.
Reports in Spain claim that Jude Bellingham and Antonio Rudiger had to be separated on Friday into a training ground.
El Chiringuito claims that former Chelsea star Rudiger Bellingham with a rough challenge during a training game.
This led the English international to bite back with a destructive insult, which then caused a collision between the couple, because teammates were forced to intervene to separate them.
Despite the confrontation, Bellingham and Rudiger would have resolved the case quickly.
In the meantime, the news has emerged that veteran -midfielder Luka Modric will be a minority shareholder in Championship Club Swansea.
It is said that a deal has agreed that the 39-year-old legend is acquiring an interest in the Welsh Club.
The amount of the swans he buys and the costs of the investment are currently unclear with Modric to become a member of Andy Coleman, Brett Cravatt, Nigel Morris and Jason Cohen as co-owners of Swansea.
The move has no influence on his continuous gaming career and he is not yet ready to hang his boots.
But buying a football club has probably been a distraction.
Moreover, Madrid is also startled by news that defender Ferland Mendy is absolutely out of the draw.
The left back has sustained a hamstring injury before the first leg, and it has now been reported because there is no chance that he will make a sudden comeback.
That contributes to the already absent Eduardo Camavinga after he was sent to the Emirates at the end of the game.
There are also fitness -doubts about Federico Valverde and David Alaba, while Dani Ceballos is almost certainly against his former club.
The only boost that can really count is the return of Aurelien Tchouameni from the suspension.
Speaking of the collision, to which Ancelotti referred to huge shortages were transferred to the Champions League to earlier times, in which the term “Remontada” was born after Barcelona had destroyed a 4-0 defeat of the first leg against Paris Saint-Germain in 2017.
He said: “Remontada? We'll try.
“It often happened.
“We will try it until the last minute.”
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