Real Madrid needs to beat Cádiz today to not get further away from Barça

Karim Benzema will also not be here tonight (9:30 p.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
10 November 2022 Thursday 01:33
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Real Madrid needs to beat Cádiz today to not get further away from Barça

Karim Benzema will also not be here tonight (9:30 p.m.) at the Bernabeu against Cádiz in the Whites' last league game before the World Cup. It will be the ninth time the Frenchman has been absent this season due to what the club calls simple "muscle fatigue". The issue has Madrid fans angry, who already see in Benzema someone who reserves himself to arrive in Qatar in perfect condition.

With Bale's precedent and the team's drop in tension (Madrid has only won one of the last four games) even Carlo Ancelotti himself had to come out yesterday to give explanations in defense of his striker: "I don't have to say anything to no one. The first disappointment is Karim, who arrives at the World Cup without the minutes needed for a good condition. To think that he has been erased I don't believe it, it's nonsense. He has not stopped, he has trained alone but the sensations were not good. He arrives at the World Cup with a few minutes left in his legs”, he stated in a press conference in Valdebebas more tense than normal, the proof that losing the leadership has been fatal for the club, the goal before the World Cup along with qualifying for the eighth of the Champions as group first.

For Ancelotti, yesterday was a day to defend his players from criticism. His praise for Vinícius was closed: “From what is sometimes said it seems that Vini is a provocateur and he is the one who receives the most fouls, the most slaps and the most pushes. Little is said about fair play in Spain, but in other countries it is much more common and may be the most important thing in football. Provoking Vini is not fair play. He is young, he loves football and his only concern is to play his best”.