Madrid, Aug 23 (EFE).- The presence of Brazilian striker Rodrygo Goes with the rest of his teammates was the novelty of Real Madrid’s return to training in the Valdebebas sports city, following two and a half days off, which They have not helped the German Toni Kroos to recover from the flu process that prevented him from playing on Saturday in Balaídos.
The madridista squad began to prepare for the visit to Espanyol, with the aim of achieving full victories in the three consecutive outings at the start of LaLiga Santander. As happened last season, in which they ended up proclaiming themselves champions, Carlo Ancelotti’s team disputed for the works of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium, their first three games of the domestic competition away from home.
Everything indicates that the great novelty for the trip to Barcelona will be the presence of Rodrygo. The Brazilian, who had minutes in Helsinki in the European Super Cup but has missed the first two games of the league due to an overload in his right thigh, completed the session with the group in his second attempt to return to normal.
His feelings, according to club sources, were positive and he will have four training sessions to improve his physical tone and gain minutes to make his debut at Espanyol’s home on Sunday (10:00 p.m.).
The negative note, on the other hand, comes with Kroos who is still convalescing from the flu process that caused him to go down over the weekend. Nor did Álvaro Odriozola train with the rest of the squad, who stayed inside the facilities on days when his departure from the white club will be finalized.
The rest of the Real Madrid players completed the first session of the week, in the evening to extend the permission granted by Carlo Ancelotti to two and a half days, which caused them to leave the Spanish capital and not accompany the Brazilian on Monday Casemiro at his farewell. Only Fede Valverde and Odriozola were in the act to fire their partner.
The week began with a part of physical training before exercises with the ball, shooting series and matches on small pitches, according to the club on its website, to finish working on speed with timed races.