The Whites, who have scored 20 goals in the last four La Liga matches, host the team that are seventeenth in the table
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After sealing their passage to the Champions League round of 16 as group winners, Real Madrid will today host Valladolid (20:00, C+ Liga & Gol T) in La Liga matchday 15. Carlo Ancelotti has picked 19 players for the match and his team will be looking to extend their great form in the Santiago Bernabéu and to earn their fifth consecutive league win.
Last Wednesday, Real Madrid sealed their Champions League round of 16 place against Galatasaray. Following their brilliant efforts in Europe, they will be looking for the fifth consecutive league win against Valladolid, having scored 20 goals (at an average of five per match) in the four previous outings.
Carlo Ancelotti has picked 19 players for the match. The Italian, who has not named Cristiano Ronaldo in the squad, to not take a risk with his injury, or Arbeloa, who is suspended, will look towards Karim Benzema continue his good form and provide the focus up front. The Frenchman has scored in four consecutive league matches, in which he has scored five goals. But he will not be left to do it alone. In the last two matches six different players, in addition to the Frenchman, have found the back of the net.
The team are playing their last La Liga match before a two week break due to the first leg of the Copa del Rey round of 32 and are looking to finish November undefeated after having managed four wins and a draw so far. The Whites have host Valladolid 41 times at the Santiago Bernabéu, with an encouraging record of 35 wins, including the last six, three draws and three losses, in which they have scored 105 goals and conceded 41.
Valladolid have not won in their last four matches
Valladolid visit the Bernabéu currently in seventeenth place in the table on 12 points, level with Almeria and Rayo Vallecano, who are in the relegation zone, after having picked up two wins, six draws and six defeats the competition. Whilst the Whites have four wins in their last four matches, Valladolid have not picked up three points in the same period. They have an away record of one win, against Rayo Vallecano, three draws and three defeats.
The team led by Juan Ignacio Martínez, who took over on the bench at the start of this season, has the important additions of Alcatraz, Bergdich, Mariño, Osorio and Rossi to the squad for this campaign. The coach will be without Ebert due to accumulation of yellow cards, but will have Rossi back following his one-match ban for the same reason. Javi Guerra is their top league goal-scorer with seven goals.