Real Madrid and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid are set to face off in one of the standout ties of the Spanish Supercup as both sides named their lineups ahead of the semi-final match at King Abdullah Sport City Stadium.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid, who arrive in Saudi Arabia under pressure after mixed results in recent weeks, have been handed a blow with the confirmed absence of star forward Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 due to a lingering knee injury. The Frenchman will continue his recovery in Spain, leaving manager Xabi Alonso to proceed without his marquee attacker. In his absence, young forward Gonzalo Garc\u00eda has been given a starting role, rewarded for his impressive hat-trick in Real\u2019s 5\u20131 La Liga win over Real Betis.<\/p>\n
Alonso\u2019s predicted lineup sees Thibaut Courtois in goal behind a back line featuring Fede Valverde, Ra\u00fal Asencio, Antonio R\u00fcdiger and \u00c1lvaro Carreras. The midfield is anchored by Eduardo Camavinga and Aur\u00e9lien Tchouam\u00e9ni, with Jude Bellingham pulling the strings further forward. On the flanks, Vin\u00edcius Jr. and Rodrygo provide the pace and creativity that Real will rely on to challenge Atl\u00e9tico\u2019s defence.<\/p>\n
Real Madrid predicted XI:<\/strong> Courtois; Valverde, Asencio, R\u00fcdiger, Carreras; Tchouam\u00e9ni, Camavinga, Bellingham; Rodrygo, Vinicius and Gonzalo.<\/p>\n Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid predicted XI:<\/strong> Oblak, Llorente, Pubill, Hancko, Ruggeri, Barrios, Koke, Baena, Simeone, Julian \u00c1lvarez, Sorloth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Real Madrid and Atl\u00e9tico Madrid are set to face off in one of the standout ties of the Spanish Supercup\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":37645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[410,1879,1823,3796,4021,3919,266,1330,4474,3608],"class_list":["post-16866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-atletico-madrid","tag-diego-simeone","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-football","tag-gonzalo-garcia","tag-la-liga","tag-real-madrid","tag-spanish-super-cup","tag-supercopa","tag-xabi-alonso"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}