Cultural Leonesa vs Real Madrid

ZZ has absolutely no excuses to not play the reserves in this game. I'd even go as far as calling up Castilla players instead of some starters.

Coentrao is back so will probably get some minutes this game

Line up that should play:


Coentrao and Mariano to come on in the second half.

This game starts a run of a busy schedule before the internationals. Let's make it count

Doubt Varane and Carvajal start give their recent injury troubles... I think you'll see Danilo-Pepe-Nacho-Ceontrao as the back 4. The rest looks right.

I hear ya. I don't particularly rate 90% of the current crop in Castilla trust me but I am pretty sure we could have some to fill our bench and some to take part like Diaz, Febas and Odegaard. Anyone but our starters

Sport, Carvajal is suspended for our next game so he'll probably start

Castilla isn't getting killed... just a mid level Segunda B team. Disappointed though. I expected a much better attack with Sergio Diaz and Odegaard.

Hala.... can Carvajal play CDR if he's suspended? I hope someone on Madrid is on that... don't want a repeat of last season

Might be a good time for Coentrao to play a some football tbh

@Sport, I would've thought so. Like Claudio said I think only a red card carries over. Besides Carvajal strikes me as someone who knows wtf is going on in his life unlike Denis

@Valk, agree, it would be a good time for him to get some fittness away from the Bernabeu. He seems to suffer from anxiety when we play at home so 3 away games in a row will come as somewhat of a relief for him

Navas, Marcelo and the BBC not called up. Would've loved for Kroos to sit this one out but who am i kidding

Line up announced:


Of course Kroos is starting. Who was i kidding when i thought he'd be rested

Kroos is the only proper CM on the squad right now tbh. If he goes down,

Kovacic too but dude what's with his Ancelotti treatment of Kroos ffs. Watch him get injured. Just our kind of luck

And Asensio is again playing on the left.

HT 2-0

Missing easy chances seems to be in our blood. Amazing how many point blank misses we have got this season never mind this half

This front line of Asensio, Lucas and Morata ffs

It still amazes me how a guy can headbut Kroos like a mm from the referee and only receive a yellow card for it. Maybe Kroos needs to be taught about the art of diving by Barca. We are probably going to go through this whole season without getting a single penalty and without player advantage

If I could i would sub James at half time he's been awful. Kroos is holding this midfield together. Without him we'd be a mess today. Still I'd take him off. They are very physical these lot

It's Cultural Leonesa... They're in the same division as Castilla. We should be crushing these guys tbh.

And so were Alaves just 2/3 seasons ago. Didn't stop them beating Brca and drawing against Atleti with a bunch of RM and Atleti youngsters in their team.

This team ffs if only they were starters they were still running at minute 92 and couldn't be happier when their teammates scored. That Nacho goal

At this point I've run out of reasons for why Kroos never gets subbed. I mean Isco went out today for Mariano then Carvajal goes out for.......Kovacic. How about Kroos for Kovacic or would that make too much sense

ZZ: I asked Kroos if he wanted to come out but he told me he wanted to finish the game. The plan was to rest him towards the end....