Reigning champions Actual Madrid host promoted Girona within the Spanish prime flight on Sunday afternoon.
A rotated Actual Madrid facet misplaced their first match of the season in midweek, succumbing to a 3-2 reverse away to RB Leipzig within the Champions League. The bitter twang of defeat is a much more acquainted style for Girona. The Catalan facet have misplaced 4 of their final six matches and trudge into the weekend contained in the relegation zone.
Here is all the things you could know in regards to the assembly between two sides at reverse ends of La Liga’s standings.
Actual Madrid vs Girona H2H Outcomes (Final 5 Video games)
Actual Madrid: 4 Wins
Girona: 1 Win
Attracts: 0
Present Kind (Final 5 Video games)
Actual Madrid: DWWWL
Girona: LLDLD
Actual Madrid crew information
Luka Modric, Dani Ceballos and Mariano Diaz have returned to full coaching. Karim Benzema has been blighted by damage since limping off towards Celtic in September and was solely risked for half of Friday’s session. Fede Valverde labored individually after taking a heavy blow towards Sevilla final weekend.
Actual Madrid Beginning 11 (4-3-3): Courtois; Carvajal, Militao, Alaba, Mendy; Modric, Tchouameni, Camavinga; Asensio, Rodrygo, Vinicius.
Bench: Lunin, Vazquez, Nacho, Vallejo, Hazard, Rudiger, Ceballos, Diaz, Odriozola.
Girona crew information
Harm has prevented each Borja Garcia and Ibrahima Kebe from that includes since Girona’s promotion to the Primera this summer time. Actual Madrid loanee Reinier missed 4 matches in October with a hamstring pressure, however got here off the bench through the membership’s draw with high-flying Osasuna final weekend.
Girona Beginning 11 (4-4-1-1): Gazzaniga; Couto, Lopez, Bueno, Hernandez; Herrera, Garcia, Romeu, Villa; Vallejo; Stuani.
Bench: Fuidias, Espinosa, Gutierrez, Reinier, Fernandez, Riquelme, Castellanos, Saiz, Terrats.
“Generally, you study extra from a loss than from ten wins in a row,” Carlo Ancelotti sagely provided within the wake of Madrid’s midweek defeat. One of many takeaways for the Italian was to “play a decrease block”, giving Madrid extra space to counter into and restrict the transitional alternatives of their opponents.
Girona may very well be an agreeable foe for Madrid to deploy this strategy towards. The promoted outfit have been eager to carry onto the ball since arising – giving Ancelotti’s crew licence to sit down again – however wrestle to transform their possession into penetration.
Up towards a Madrid facet stung by a uncommon setback, Girona’s look ahead to a maiden clear sheet this season could also be prolonged for an additional week.
Prediction: Actual Madrid 3-1 Girona