Leganés - Real Madrid: preview and lineups, live

07/19/2020 - 13:00

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Real Madrid visits Leganés, at the close of his participation in the Spanish League and as a brand-new champion after beating Lionel Messi Barcelona in hand to hand , in a match that is of interest only to the local team, which must win to have chances to avoid relegation to the Second Division.

The match, valid for date 38 of the Santander League, will be played at 4:00 p.m. (in Argentina) at the Butarque stadium and with live and direct television from DirecTV Sports (channels 610 and 1610 HD) .

While Real Madrid will play with the relaxation of the duty fulfilled, Leganés needs to win and hope that Celta de Vigo does not do so during his visit to the relegated Espanyol in Barcelona, ​​to avoid losing the category.

Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos holds up the championship trophy for the league title. (EFE)

The team led by the Mexican Javier Aguirre reaches this last date with 35 points , in 18th place in the championship, and is so far the last of the three to go down to the Second Division, along with Espanyol and Mallorca.

Celta, meanwhile, starts the date with 36 units and, not to depend on third parties, is also obliged to win.

As the Galicians visit an already relegated rival, Leganés also has the advantage of receiving a Real Madrid in a relaxed state , which on the penultimate date achieved the 34th League in its history, with its own triumph against Villarreal, so He should not even have paid attention to Barcelona's defeat at home against Osasuna.

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Leganés , even pressured by the specific risk of relegation, faces this commitment to morale through the roof thanks to the latest results, as he added ten points out of twelve possible with victories against two rivals with European aspirations such as Valencia and Athletic Bilbao as a visitor .

Celta, on the other hand, had come to enjoy a nine-point advantage over the Madrid team on date 32 (34 against 25), but since then they have added just two points out of 15 played , which led to them reaching this outcome separated by the minimum distance.

Javier Aguirre, the Mexican coach of Leganés. (AFP)

As for the precedents against Real, they are not encouraging to the extent that the Leganes never beat the whites in the League. Yes they have, up to two times, in the Copa del Rey. One of them, the one achieved at the Santiago Bernabéu in the return of the quarterfinals of the 2017-18 edition and that served to overcome the tie.

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Aguirre wanted to reveal the casualties that the group has, so it could appear by surprise any of the injured in recent weeks such as Guido Carrillo or Óscar Rodríguez. What is certain is that Jonathan Silva will return after having completed the sanction that prevented him from visiting the San Mamés stadium.

The celebration of the Argentine Jonathan Silva with his teammates after his goal at Espanyol. (EFE)

For Real Madrid the game will be the end of the party after fulfilling its great objective of the season, to conquer its thirty-fourth League . At stake is the image, respect for competition and a streak that has been decisive in turning the classification around with the return of football after being confined by the coronavirus pandemic.

Ten consecutive wins that Zinedine Zidane wants eleven before giving his players a few days off to recharge their batteries and face the comeback attempt on August 7 against Manchester City , in the Champions League round of 16 rematch that, in the first leg played in Madrid prior to the pandemic, the English team won by 2 to 1.

The efforts made to proclaim himself champion and do so before the last day, will cause massive rotations of Zidane in his starting team . Thus, players usually marginalized by the coach will appear, including James Rodríguez or Gareth Bale.

Possible formations

Leganés : Iván Cuéllar; Aitor Ruibal, Roberto Rosales, Dimitrios Siovas, Rodrigo Tarín, Jonathan Silva; Roque Mesa, Bryan Gil, Ibrahim Amadou, Javier Eraso; Miguel Angel Guerrero or Guido Carrillo. DT : Javier Aguirre.

Real Madrid : Alphonse Areola; Lucas Vázquez, Militao, Sergio Ramos, Ferland Mendy; Fede Valverde, Toni Kroos or Luka Modric, Isco; Marco Asensio, Vinicius and Karim Benzema or Luka Jovic. DT: Zinedine Zidane.

Time : 16 hours (from Argentina).

TV : DirecTV Sports.

Referee : Guillermo Cuadra Fernández.

Stadium : Butarque