In the early morning of 5 May, a focus battle will be held at the Bernabeu in the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, and Real Madrid, who lost the first leg away, will face the visiting Manchester City. Last weekend, the Galaxy beat Espanyol 4-0 to win this season's La Liga title four rounds in advance, which also added a lot of confidence to their Champions League turnover. However, on May 3, that is, today, Real Madrid came with a bad news, according to a number of media reports, Real Madrid's defensive core Alaba was basically unable to fight with Manchester City because of the tearing of adductor muscles.
After Real Madrid won la Liga, Alaba also set a god record, winning the league title for 10 consecutive seasons, and during his previous time with Bayern, he won the Bundesliga title with the team for nine consecutive titles, and now he is still lucky to join Real Madrid. This season at Real Madrid, Alaba has made up for Ramos' departure with surprising speed, with a stunning home comeback in Paris, where his action of lifting a chair to celebrate has become an eternity classic.
But perhaps the record was so perfect that Arabba was even jealous of fate. In his previous league match with Osasuna, Alaba suffered an injury, but due to the needs of the team, he still participated in the Champions League semi-final with an injury against Manchester City, which also led to further aggravation of his injury. Against Espanyol, Casemiro withdrew to pair a double centre-back with Vallejo, and the two performed well, facing espanyol's 21-shot 6-positive offensive force to save the goal.
But City's strength is far from being comparable to Espanyol, who is 14th in La Liga. Even with Alaba present, they knocked on the Galactic goal four times. Now that the Austrians are hanging up the exemption card, Real Madrid's already unreliable backline is even worse. Ancelotti may only be able to use the centre-back combination of Militang and Nacho. The 32-year-old has made 37 appearances in all competitions this season, including 13 starts in 24 La Liga games and three goals. Averaged 0.54 steals, 1.12 interceptions and 1.67 clearances per game. In terms of data, Nacho is actually not much worse than Arabba. But he is 32 years old after all, and in the face of Manchester City's all-in-one passing and control style, the performance of the centre-back combination is still a sweat.
After leading the team to la Liga, Ancelotti became the first person in world football to gather all five of Europe's major league champions, and if he can lead the team to finally win the Champions League, he will win the fourth Champions League trophy of his coaching career, which is also a new record.
However, after the first leg away defeat to Manchester City, Real Madrid must go all out at home and invest more troops in attack, which is in the heart of Manchester City. Guardiola's team has never been afraid of their opponents fighting against each other, but the dense defense can cause them trouble. Two days later, Guardiola will welcome Cancelo's return from suspension, right-back Kyle Walker is also likely to play, after four consecutive games out, the English flying wings seem to be ready to play. His speed, presumably, would make Vinicius very uncomfortable.
Therefore, although there is a magic Benzema, this time Real Madrid is not very likely to turn over, and it is very difficult for Ancelotti to win the La Liga Champions League double. Of course, the football is round, and it may not be impossible for Benzema to open and hang again, but the odds are a little small.