Madrid, Spain.- The strong blow received in Kiev in the Champions League by Karim Benzema has the French striker without stepping on the grass and exercising alone in the gym of the sports city of the Real Madrid two days before the classic, despite the fact that the coaching staff and players are optimistic about their presence at the Camp Nou against Barcelona.
The blow to the instep of the right foot that suffers Benzema it continues to prevent him from exercising with the rest of his classmates. The French striker and a great scoring reference for Carlo Ancelotti’s team, continues with severe pain and not strength, he only performs gentle empowerment work in the gym while the classic is approaching.
They are gaining rhythm and options to enter the call-up of the Italian coach Dani Carvajal, fully recovered from the last muscular mishap in a long list of muscular problems, and the Belgian Eden Hazard, once the overload suffered with his team in the Nations League has been overcome and that prevented him from playing against Shakhtar in the Champions League.
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The classic Isco Alarcón, the Welshman Gareth Bale and the Serbian Luka Jovic, who work on the pitch with club recuperators, will not arrive in time, and Dani Ceballos is still in the infirmary, convalescing from the injury he suffered at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games .
The group that exercised intensely under Ancelotti’s orders began the morning with gym work before doing exercises with the ball and reinforcing the tactic the Italian coach will be betting on at the Camp Nou. According to the white club, the training lasted two hours, twice the usual, and ended with matches in reduced dimensions.
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The Real Madrid He will close the preparation of the classic with his third and last training session on Saturday, in the afternoon session, in the sports city of Valdebebas from 4:00 p.m. Benzema’s return to the group is expected to undergo a test with optimism to be a starter on Sunday at the Camp Nou.
Benzema judgment
The sentence of the case Benzema, in which the Real Madrid striker is accused of complicity in blackmailing his teammate Mathieu Valbuena, will be known on November 24, the court announced this Friday at the end of the oral hearing.
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That day it will be known if the Correctional Court of Versailles, on the outskirts of Paris, heeds the request of the Prosecutor’s Office, which requested against Benzema ten months in jail exempt from compliance and a fine of 75,000 euros.
Or if you bet on the thesis of the defense of the Real Madrid player, who asked for acquittal considering that there is no material evidence of the facts for which he is accused.
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