Gareth Bale,
Pepe, Dani Carvajal and Raphael Varane will miss the Real Madrid trip to
Granada after Zinedine Zidane revealed that the latest had suffered a new
injury setback. Meanwhile, the France boss could also rest Cristiano Ronaldo in
order to the have Ballon D'or winner fresh for the club's attempt to recapture
the Champions League crown and beat Barcelona for the La Liga title.
The Portugal
international scored a hat-trick during Real Madrid's 3-0 victory over Atletico
Madrid on Tuesday night to put Los Blancos on the brink of another Champions
League final.
However, Zidane has rotated him lately in La Liga and suggested
that he could do the same on Saturday in order to have him rested for the
second leg of the semi-finals to be played at the Vicente Calderon on Wednesday
night.
"I
speak to Ronaldo a lot. He knows himself very well and he knows that he's been
playing more than 50 games a season up until now, but with the accumulation of
all these games, now he has to rest a bit," Zidane said in the press
conference ahead of the trip to Granada.
"I'm
not the coach who is leaving him out, it's not like that. I chat to him a lot,
as I do with all my players, and sometimes they have to rest if we want them to
come into the closing stages at 100%. It's a case of dialogue with the
players."
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