Carvajal and Marcelo
In Carvajal and Marcelo, Zinedine Zidane possesses two reliable defenders who also provide the team with attacking prowess. The Brazilian left back is joint third with Luka Modric in terms of the number of balls he has recovered in the Champions League (49), behind only Casemiro and Toni Kroos. Meanwhile, Carvajal has the backing of the Bernabéu and, with regards to statistics, has completely overshadowed Danilo, whose disastrous performances against Wolfsburg have caused Zizou to reevaluate his options on the right flank. The Spain international has recovered 34 balls over 540 minutes of Champions League football; almost twice the number his Brazilian counterpart has managed (18 over 507 minutes).