Real Madrid: Carvajal to miss Super Cup semi-final date with Athletic
The right-back suffered a minor muscular injury during the Celta game 10 days agoand will miss the Super Cup semi-final against Athletic on Thursday.
Odriozola ostracised
The big surprise is that Álvaro Odriozola, the natural choice to come into the side whenever Carvajal is unavailable, has not played a single minute since 30 September. He joined from Real Sociedad in 2018 for 30 million euros but has hardly figured. He doesn't figure in Zidane's plans and a year ago he was loaned out to Bayern Munich to gain more playing time but he hardly play there either. Marcelino is keen for him to form part of his new project at Athletic - a plan which Madrid would be open to. While Zidane is in charge, Odriozola is not going to play. When Carvajal is out, the coach has called on Lucas and Nacho - and even Militão...
Carvajal has played 290 games for Real Madrid, scoring seven goals and has 47 assists. He is also a regular for Luis Enrique's Spain side. Injuries apart, Carvajal is in the best moment of his professional career (Transfermarkt value him at 40 million euros) as well as off the field (he was a father for the first time on 9 December).