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Confirmed line-up for Real Madrid: Ancelotti's final starting eleven

The Reggiolo coach announces the starting eleven to host Real Sociedad at Santiago Bernabéu

Real Madrid closes the current league campaign with a match against Real Sociedad in which there is nothing at stake. But it will be an emotional moment for all Madridists, given the triple farewell that will occur at the merengue coliseum this Saturday: Luka Modric, Lucas Vázquez, and Carlo Ancelotti.

These two players and the Reggiolo coach say goodbye to Real Madrid after achieving great successes and a service record impossible to match and surpass. That emotional match, the last of the 24/25 season, doesn't imply that the group arrives with injury absences. Dani Carvajal, Éder Militão, Ferland Mendy, David Alaba, Antonio Rüdiger, Eduardo Camavinga, Endrick, and Rodrygo Goes are the footballers absent from this match due to injury.

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Jude Bellingham in the Copa del Rey match against Real Sociedad | Real Madrid Confidencial

Jude Bellingham, suspended during the match against Sevilla, at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán, will also not be present. Given that this warning was his fifth consecutive yellow card, the English '5' must serve his 'punishment' in the last match of the current league season. Lucas Vázquez, Dani Ceballos, and Fede Valverde have accumulated four cards and remain at risk of suspension.

The second stage of the Reggiolo coach will end in a few hours, a farewell that will undoubtedly be emotional. This is the formation of his last great work in charge of the white team: Lunin; Lucas Vázquez, Tchouaméni, Asencio, Fran García; Dani Ceballos, Valverde, Modric, Güler; Mbappé, Brahim.

There will be no more

This configuration of Carlo Ancelotti's line-up for the starting eleven against Real Sociedad is a clear reward. Especially for Lucas Vázquez and Luka Modric, players who say goodbye to the first team after the Club World Cup... but it will be their last match at the merengue coliseum.

Carlo Ancelotti changes at the last minute in the goal, placing Andriy Lunin whose prominence has been quite reduced this season. Especially compared to last season. The defense holds no surprises: Raúl Asencio, Tchouaméni, and Fran García, due to injuries, are the players habitually chosen by the Italian coach.

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Vinícius Jr. during a Real Madrid-Real Sociedad match this season | Real Madrid Confidencial

The same with the midfield. Led by the legend that is already Luka Modric, Real Madrid will have the most in-form midfielders in the final stretch of the current soccer season. The forward line holds only one surprise: the inclusion of Vinícius in the squad has not meant his starting position in this farewell to Carlo Ancelotti.

Thus, the '7' verdeamarelo may have some playing minutes during the second half. After all, the bond between the São Gonçalo striker and Ancelotti himself is one of the best memories left by the transalpine coach in this second stage.

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