Madrid down to 10 from first team vs. Mallorca

Injuries to Brahim Díaz and Andriy Lunin near Real Madrid with conscionable 10 disposable first-team players for Real Madrid's important LaLiga crippled against Real Mallorca connected Wednesday.

The lucifer has small value for Madrid but a nonaccomplishment means rivals Barcelona tin assertion the league rubric portion a triumph for Mallorca puts them person to securing a spot successful the UEFA Conference League.

Goalkeeper Lunin suffered an wounded to his close manus successful training, Madrid said connected Wednesday, portion playmaker Díaz was diagnosed with a thigh problem.

Their withdrawals meant Madrid's squad for Wednesday's crippled astatine the Bernabéu contained conscionable 10 players registered with the archetypal team: Thibaut Courtois, Fran García, Federico Valverde, Jesús Vallejo, Luka Modric, Dani Ceballos, Arda Güler, Jude Bellingham, Endrick and Kylian Mbappé.

The remainder of the matchday squad was made up of players registered with Madrid's reserve team, Castilla.

Spanish shot federation rules authorities that a squad indispensable tract astatine slightest 7 players registered for the class successful which the crippled takes spot -- successful this case, the archetypal squad -- astatine each times.

If the fig of players were reduced to six oregon fewer, the referee would beryllium obliged to suspend the game, with the offending squad forfeiting the fixture for fielding an ineligible lineup.

Dani Carvajal, Éder Militão, David Alaba, Antonio Rüdiger, Ferland Mendy, Eduardo Camavinga, Lucas Vázquez, Vinícius Júnior and Rodrygo are each retired injured. Aurélien Tchouaméni is besides ruled retired owed to the yellowish paper helium picked up against Barcelona, ​​which carries a suspension.

The injuries to Vinícius and Lucas Vázquez made Real Madrid's problems clear connected Monday, and the quality arrived astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Ancelotti confirmed his end-of-the-season departure to manager Brazil. Vinícius has a near ankle sprain portion Vazquez has a near thigh injury.

Vinícius and Vázquez were some substituted during Madrid's 4-3 Clásico defeat to Barcelona connected Sunday.

On Tuesday, Rodrygo began Madrid's grooming earlier indicating to Ancelotti and the squad doc that helium was feeling immoderate discomfort, and leaving the league aboriginal aft conscionable a fewer minutes.

"He [Rodrygo] had a fever past week, which prevented him from grooming good and returning to his champion level," Ancelotti said afterwards. "Today helium felt immoderate discomfort successful his leg, which needs to beryllium evaluated.

Sources person told ESPN that Madrid were finalising a woody for Xabi Alonso to go the club's caller manager astatine the extremity of the league season, replacing Ancelotti.

Alonso announced past week that helium would beryllium leaving Bayer Leverkusen aft 3 palmy seasons astatine the Bundesliga club.