Actual Madrid are on the verge of a thirty fifth La Liga title and might take one other step in direction of lifting the trophy at Osasuna on Wednesday.
Barcelona’s shock 1-0 defeat to Cadiz on Monday night signifies that Madrid are actually 15 factors of their second-placed rivals.
Madrid have solely six video games remaining, whereas Barcelona have seven.
Subsequently, a win right here towards their ninth-placed opponents will see Madrid go 18 factors forward of Barca – with the Blaugrana solely capable of acquire 21 factors most from their closing matches.
Carlo Ancelotti is with out numerous gamers for the journey to Pamplona. Eden Hazard and Ferland Mendy are each injured, whereas Marcelo can also be a doubt.
Backup gamers Jesus Vallejo and Dani Ceballos are additionally in danger on account of COVID-19.
Ancelotti might choose to rotate a number of gamers given Madrid can have one eye forward to subsequent week’s Champions League semi-final towards Manchester Metropolis.
Nonetheless, it’s doubtless he’ll nonetheless play a robust XI towards Osasuna given Madrid don’t have one other sport till they play Metropolis in six days in England.
Given the possible absences of each Mendy and Marcelo, David Alaba ought to transfer over to left again with Nacho deputising at centre again.
Eduardo Camavinga might once more be chosen at central midfield alongside veterans Toni Kroos and Luka Modric.
In the meantime, Karim Benzema will lead the road – flanked by Fede Valverde and Vinicius Jr – aiming to take care of his unbelievable scoring file of 39 targets in as many video games this time period.
Osasuna are lacking the suspended Lucas Torro and the injured Jesus Areso, Kike Garcia and Juan Cruz.
Predicted Actual Madrid XI v Osasuna