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Madrid complete their final session before the Sociedad Match
at Ciudad Real Madrid (Valdebebas)
Real Madrid completed their final training session ahead of the Real Sociedad game (Saturday 4pm CET). Carlo Ancelotti worked with all the players at his disposal, except for Cristiano Ronaldo, who he gave the day off. Modric and Pepe continued with their recovery work.
The session began with some ball possession drills. Split into two groups, the outfield players practiced ball circulation as well as applying pressure on the opposition when without possession. Casillas, Keylor Navas and Pacheco trained separately.
The 20-man squad for the match against Real Sociedad
NEWS | 30/01/2015
Real Madrid prepare for matchday twenty-one of La Liga in the Santiago Bernabéu.
Carlo Ancelotti has named 20 players in his squad for Real Madrid's La Liga matchday 21 clash against Real Sociedad, which will take place on Saturday in the Santiago Bernabéu (4pm CET).
REAL MADRID SQUAD:
Goalkeepers: Casillas, Keylor Navas and Pacheco.
Defenders: Varane, Ramos, Coentrão, Marcelo, Carvajal, Arbeloa and Nacho.
Midfielders: Khedira, Kroos, James, Bale, Illarra, Isco and Lucas Silva.
Forwards: Benzema, Chicharito and Jesé.
PRE-MATCH MEET-UP
Friday 30 January at 8pm CET, at the Santiago Bernabéu.
NEXT TRAINING SESSION:
Sunday 1 February at 11am CET, at Ciudad Real Madrid (behind closed doors).
Straight into working with the senior team on his very first day at the Valdebebas training complex, Martin Ødegaard is clearly no average academy recruit.
Ødegaard will alternate training with the first team and the reserves as, although he will report to Zinedine Zidane, Carlo Ancelotti is not ruling out sporadically calling on his services throughout the season.
Indeed, Martin made a good first impression on his new training companions. "He's very bright, a class act" was the overriding general opinion among those at the Valdebebas training complex on the Norwegian star's performance. Although he had already trained with the first team, – on 8th January, prior to deciding on Real Madrid -Thursday was his first serious session alongside the other members of the first team.
It was Odegaard's intelligence, his speed in reading the game and excellent handling of the ball that struck onlookers. Some likened the youngster to Michael Laudrup, one of the classiest players European football has seen in recent years, who, just like Ødegaard, also hails from northern Europe.
The young Norwegian will be a familiar figure in Ancelotti's training sessions although we will have to wait a while longer to see him make his 'Los Blancos' debut at the Bernabéu.
Neither is he likely to make his first appearance with Zinedine Zidane's Castilla this weekend, when they head to Trival Valderas's home turf to defend their Segunda B Group II lead.