The rest of the coaching staff would call this “blessed problem”, but The truth is that Zidane now has at his disposal no less than seven band players: Bale (30 years old), Lucas Vázquez (28), Brahim (20), Vinicius (19), Rodrygo (19), Hazard (29) and Asensio (24). The recovery of these last two, after a long time of loss due to his injuries (the Mallorcan will enjoy his first official minutes of the course), will allow Zidane to have his seven wingers ready for the LaLiga restart. When you bet on 4-3-3, you will have to discard five. But when playing 4-4-2, only one of them can be chosen for the eleven headline.
In that case it is Hazard the one who has all the ballots to be indisputable, so there will be six players sticking for a place in the gala eleven. Zidane has tried them all, except for one made of Brahim, who has only given minutes in the Copa del Rey (he played in Salamanca and at the Bernabéu against Real Sociedad).
In the case of Vinicius is the one with whom the Marseille coach will have to get the most wet. It has been very difficult for the Brazilian to gain the full confidence of his coach, but in recent games he has already had stripes. The day of the Clásico was the best of the team and opened Madrid’s victory, which puts him in a good position to fight to continue as the starter. Of course, it would be relegated to right wing, where their benefits drop a lot.
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The one that seems to have the crudest is Bale, whom Zizou wanted to rescue at the beginning of the season but whom he has left out of the two big nights of City (he played only the last minutes) and Barça (he preferred Mariano in the final stretch over the Welshman …). An almost definitive declaration of intent.
Rodrygo is a curious case, apart from being, along with Asensio, the only one that is not extreme to use. He gave him the alternative in Istanbul when all Madrid played it and then he repeated with the Turks, putting a hat-trick on them. But the Brazilian was lowering his benefits until finishing more at Castilla than in the first team.
Asensio is the great beneficiary of the new normality that is presented athletically to Madrid. On the right, he operates in cinema and Zidane could bet on the trident he dreamed of in the summer before the Balearic’s misfortune: Asensio-Benzema-Hazard. It will depend on how Asensio responds when the official matches arrive in June. The one who knows that he will have minutes for his dedication and solidarity in the game is Lucas. Zidane has Galician.
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