Beaten Saturday by Betis during the 26the Liga Day (2-1), Real Madrid is only third in the Spanish elite, three lengths from the Barcelona leader and two points from an Atlético which he is about to find in C1 next week.
However for this major meeting to come as for the lost meeting this weekend, Carlo Ancelotti risks having to compose without a Federico Valverde which has become essential or almost to its collective.
Absent from three games for a problem for adductors, the Uruguayan metronome could not train with his teammates this Sunday again, and the hopes to see him restored for Tuesday's shock are thin. A disappointment all the more problematic than Jude Bellingham, suspended, will also miss the Merengue collective against the Colchoneros.
