Real Madrid has a very good evening on Wednesday while they sent to Manchester City to book their place in the last 16 of the Champions League. However, it was not a perfect match for the Carlo Ancelotti side when a yellow card was picked up in the first half by Jude Bellingham that he was suspended for the first stage of the next round.
The absence of Bellingham for the first stage of the last 16 draw of Real Madrid, who will be against Atletico Madrid or Bayer Leverkusen, is a big blow, since he has been one of the most decisive players in Europe for the past 18 months. It means that Ancelotti must find a replacement and he has options.
Brahim Diaz is the favorite, while Arda Guler has an external chance. Ancelotti could also choose to follow a different route and play with an extra defensive midfielder and if he does this, Eduardo Camavinga would be a leading candidate to get the wink to play next to Dani Ceballos and Aurelien Tchouameni.
However, Camavinga itself was also almost excluded from the first leg due to suspension. In the dying phases of the match against Man City, the French midfielder jumped into Omar Marmoush and committed an error in the process. Although he was not punished by referee Istvan Kovacs, he did not escape the wrath of several of his Real Madrid teammates, including Vinicius Junior and Andriy Lunin.
A fan video, transmitted by Marca, from the Santiago Bernabeu conquered the moment that after the full -time whistle, Camavinga was approached by Vinicius and Lunin, and the couple was visibly unhappy with their teammate.
It is perhaps clear that Camavinga can happily count himself that he was not yellow for the fault on Marmoush, and as a result he is available for the first stage of Real Madrid's last 16 draw.
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