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With their La Liga game against Valencia, which was scheduled to be played today, getting postponed Real Madrid continued to train with an eye on their next match – a UEFA Champions League encounter against AC Milan.
The encounter against Carlo Ancelotti’s former employers is a huge one for Real Madrid for they have already lost once in Europe this season (vs Lille) and were hammered in their latest league game by Barcelona.
As such, Real Madrid are intent on producing a strong reaction against Milan and continued to prepare to face Paulo Fonseca’s men next week.
No Federico Valverde in training
However, as reported by MARCA, Real Madrid midfield mainstay Federico Valverde was not part of the group training session today and instead worked indoors in the gym.
The Uruguayan international has played relentlessly this season without any sort of break or rest and as such appears to have been granted a lighter load in training today.
After all, the postponement of the Valencia match has given Ancelotti and his staff a chance to regulate the training workload of some of the players who have had a lot of minutes under their belt and are in need of a breather.
Valverde, so far this season, has started all of Real Madrid’s 15 matches in La Liga, accumulating over 1,300 minutes on the field, during which he has scored three goals and set up two more.
Jude Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe had worked inside the facilities earlier this week and today was Valverde’s turn to do so, four days before Real Madrid face AC Milan.
Meanwhile, Antonio Rudiger has been back in full training already while Thibaut Courtois, Rodrygo Goes, and David Alaba continued to work individually on the pitch.