Blue challenge for a Real Madrid devastated by casualties

Zidane team, exhausted after three games of brutal demand but full of morale, visits Getafe with only eleven outfield players from the first squad available and a defense of circumstances

Full of morale after qualifying for the semifinals of the Champions defeating Liverpool in the quarterfinals and winning the classic on a day in which Atlético's stumble against Betis put the lead on shot but destroyed by casualties and fatigue, Real Madrid begins its final challenge for the League title by visiting a Getafe at the Alfonso Pérez Coliseum that needs to win to see the permanence closer and will try to take advantage of the multiple absences of the whites, nine, to surprise and return to the path of the triumph 50 days after beating Valencia, his last victory in the championship.

The strenuous season continues to wreak havoc on the Chamartín team's infirmary, which attends the appointment with its southern neighbor of the Community of Madrid with only eleven outfield players from the first squad available - there were twelve in the call but Valverde fell by being in isolation for having been in contact with a positive for coronavirus-, which means that Zinedine Zidane will hardly have bullets in the chamber, beyond the 'blackbirds' of Castilla that he mentioned, to make changes in a duel in the that to the emergencies of Getafe we ​​must add the possible drop in adrenaline that the whites could suffer after ten days of enormous physical and emotional demand that have left the team in a position to tie a double that in January seemed like a chimera.

At that cruising speed that has allowed him to link fourteen games without knowing defeat since he fell against Levante in the Alfredo Di Stéfano - eleven victories and three draws - Real Madrid grabs to weather the incessant list of setbacks that the call made that Zidane offered this Saturday more in a war report than in a sports summons.

The main escabechina is in the rear, where none of the four footballers with the starting belt will step on the Coliseum. Out after testing positive for coronavirus Sergio Ramos and Varane -the captain would have missed the shock anyway when he was injured-, with Carvajal still in cotton to avoid a relapse of the mishap in the right thigh that has him since mid-February in the dry dock, Lucas Vázquez ruled out for the remainder of the campaign due to a sprained cruciate ligament in his left knee and Nacho sanctioned when he saw the yellow card against Barça and completed the cycle, after the last training session the absence of Mendy was also confirmed, who suffers an overload on the soleus of the left leg.

The French left-back was one of the few who had been saved to date from the plague of injuries that has been lacerating Real Madrid since the start of the course and his loss leaves Zidane with only four defenders, including Víctor Chust, central defender Castilla who already shot in the unfortunate visit to Alcoyano and who also played four minutes against Getafe in the first round. The Valencian, one of the pillars of the first white subsidiary, will form a couple in the rearguard axis with Militao, whom his notable performances against Liverpool and Barça have brought out. Odriozola and Marcelo, two troops who are usually in the pillory due to their defensive gaps, will complete a plot of circumstances.

Benzema, substitute

In midfield Casemiro is missing, sent off in the classic. The loss of the Brazilian, "one of the best in the world in his position" as stressed by José Bordalás, forces Zidane to rebuild the midfield. He grants Kroos rest, places Modric as anchor and places Isco and Asensio as flyers. Upstairs Benzema will rest from the beginning, who drags discomfort after Milner's hard entry at Anfield. His hole is covered by Mariano, with Rodrygo and Vinicius completing the trident.

Bordalás has far fewer headaches with eleven. The Getafe coach recovers Chakla and only loses Cucho Hernández and Cabaco through injury. The azulones, fifteenth in the table, have four cushion points with respect to the descent, they have only added one victory in the last twelve days, they are, together with Eibar, the team that has scored the fewest goals so far this season (22) and they haven't beat Real Madrid in the league since the 2012-13 season, but this season they already beat Barça and drew with Atlético at the Coliseum. "We do not face any game thinking about another result that is not victory," remarked his coach.