PSG-Real Madrid team news: Bale out, Asensio and Vázquez in
Zinedine Zidane has dropped Gareth Bale for the visit to PSG in the Champions League, with Lucas Vázquez and Marco Asensio favoured on the flanks.
Gareth Bale, Luka Modric, and Toni Kroos miss out for Real Madrid at Parc des Princes in the second leg of the Champions League last-16.
Modric and Kroos have not fully recovered from injury, while Bale has been dropped in favour of Lucas Vázquez on the right flank. Marco Asensio will play on the left, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Karim Benzema paired together in attack.
For the Ligue 1 leaders, in-form and ex-Madrid Ángel Di María features alongside Cavani and Mbappé in the front three.
PSG have a 3-1 deficit to overturn from the first leg, but will do so without Neymar, who is recuperating in Brazil after undergoing an operation on a fractured metatarsal.
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