The Whites face some key casualties with the Egyptian team in the ‘Mundialito’ ‘semi-finals’
He Real Madrid will be chasing the first title of the season this week. will put it in Rabat, capital of Morocco, where the whites play the World Cup for clubs. Carlo Ancelotti’s agree straight through to the semi-finalsand in them they will confront Al-Ahly Sporting Egyptian Club, which has emerged as one of the great sensations of the tournament in the previous rounds.
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And it is that all of Cairo debuted in the tournament in the round of 16, which he got rid of Auckland city of New Zealand, club directed, precisely, by the former Spanish footballer Albert Riera. A shock that the Al-Ahly resolved with great authority and took 3-0, before being measured in quarters on Seattle Sounders, the first MLS club in the United States to play a ‘Mundialito’. Although that of Marcel Koller also defeated them, 1-0, thanks to a goal from Afsha in the closing stages of the game.
Madrid, plagued by casualties
So the whites they will have to be very careful with Al-Ahly. Especially since those of ‘Carletto’ arrive littered with victims. Due to an injury, the merengue team will not be able to count on pieces as important as Thibaut Courtois, Ferland Mendy, Eder Militao or Karim Benzema, to which is added Lucas Vazquez and Eden Hazard. Given this, Ancelotti, who has taken up to five homegrown players to Morocco (the goalkeepers Luis López and Lucas Cañizares, the defender Marvel and the midfielders Mario Martín and Sergio Arribas) he will have to improvise in his elf.
In goal, Andriy Lunin, Courtois’s squire, will come out. In defense he could start again David Alaba, already recovered from his soleus injury, and that you have so many options to playor in the axis of the back, by Nacho Fernández, as in the left-back, displacing Eduardo Camavinga. For his part, ‘Carletto’ is expected to trust his indisputable midfielders: Luka Modric, Toni Kroos and Aurélien Tchouaméni; while, at the point of attack, Fede Valverde and Vinicius Júnior are fixed. The question is whether that will be the case Rodrygo Goes or Marco Asensio whoever trades with them.
Al-Ahly, with doubts in the attack
For his part, Al-Ahly is expected to have done just that an elf very similar to the one who defeated both Auckland City and Seattle Sounders. The set of Cairo, who aspires to win his country’s Premier League again in this race after several seasons without doing this, it has high level footballers. Ferro on the defensive, with goalkeeper Mohamed El Shenawy, Egypt’s starting goalkeeper, as a great leader, the team, which so far has not conceded a single goal in ‘Mundialito’, has one of his great gears in the center of the field, with He Senegalese midfielder Aliou Dieng flanked by Hamdi Fathi and Amr El Solia to deliver quality. In attack, yes, there come the doubts for Marcel Koller, because footballers like Ahmed Abdelkader, Hussain El Shahat, striker Mohamed Sherif and others with experience in Europe like the South African ‘bullet’ Percy Tau, formerly of Brighton, or Kahraba, chose to be the starters.
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ALIGNMENTS OF AL-AHLY VS. REAL MADRID
Al-Ahly (1-4-3-3): The Shenawy; Hany, Mahmoud, Abdelmonem, Maaloul; Fathi, Dieng, El Solia; Tau/El Shahat, Sherif/Kahraba and Abdelkader
Real Madrid (1-4-3-3): Lunin; Carvajal, Rudiger, Nacho, Camavinga/Alaba; Modric, Tchouameni, Kroos; Fede Valverde, Rodrygo/Asensio and Vinicius
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