For this tie, Zinedine Zidane will be
without the likes of Raphael Varane, Keylor Navas and Mateo Kovacic, as
they continue their recovery programs. As per Real’s official site, none of them trained with the main squad in the final training sessions and hence, will not feature.
Zidane confirmed in his press conference
that Dani Carvajal and Gareth Bale have returned to training. “Dani is
doing well, he’s training as usual. Gareth has now completed a second
training session with the group and the process is following its normal
course.”
The Frenchman went on to say however, that neither will feature in the
squad list as they are being eased back into action after the
international break. He also revealed that Bale, like Cristiano Ronaldo,
wouldn’t be travelling with his side for national duty in the upcoming
break.
Having lost two consecutive games,
Zidane was asked whether he would consider a change of formation, to
which he replied that while his side are capable of playing in many
different formations, it doesn’t change the main goal of going out there
and trying to win.
He said,”We’re capable of playing in a
lot of different ways and using different formations, but that doesn’t
change what we’ve got to go out and do on the pitch. It doesn’t depend
on the system and I’m not going to go changing things just because we’ve
lost two games. We need to win tomorrow and we’ll have to see how we’re
going to try and do that.”
So we will likely see the exact same or a
largely similar starting XI that started that 1-3 hammering against
Tottenham. They remain his strongest starting XI and having served him
so well prior to those two losses, it is unlikely that Zidane will lose
faith in his men so soon.
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