After a victorious start to their UEFA Champions League campaign, Real Madrid return to La Liga this weekend with a match against Espanyol. The Merengues will be looking to win this match against the Catalan team to ensure their deficit with Barcelona remains manageable and also to go into the Madrid derby in the best of forms.
Carlo Ancelotti will still be without some of his important players, including David Alaba, Eduardo Camavinga, Brahim Diaz, and Dani Ceballos for this game. Camavinga is working to be available for the Atletico Madrid match but is highly unlikely to get into shape for this upcoming match.
But despite these absences, Carlo Ancelotti has not included many players from the youth side in his squad for the match against Espanyol, which has been published by the club today. Only the goalkeeper Fran Gonzalez is the youth player to have been named on this squad list.
The full squad announced by Real Madrid is as follows:
Goalkeepers:
- 1: Thibaut Courtois
- 2: Andriy Lunin
- 3: Fran Gonzalez
Defenders:
- 1: Dani Carvajal
- 2: Lucas Vazquez
- 3: Eder Militao
- 4: Jesus Vallejo
- 5: Fran Garcia
- 6: Antonio Rudiger
- 7: Ferland Mendy
Midfielders:
- 1: Jude Bellingham
- 2: Federico Valverde
- 3: Luka Modric
- 4: Aurelien Tchouameni
- 5: Arda Guler
Forwards:
- 1: Vinicius Junior
- 2: Kylian Mbappe
- 3: Rodrygo Goes
- 4: Endrick
