Real Madrid lineup vs. Oviedo: Predicted XI for La Liga clash as Mbappe fitness doubt remains

Real Madrid big Real Oviedo astatine the Santiago Bernabeu connected Thursday evening successful La Liga, looking to bounce backmost aft their decision to Barcelona.

Alvaro Arbeloa faces a lengthy absentee database up of the fixture, with respective first-team regulars unavailable, leaving him with cardinal decisions to marque successful some onslaught and defence.

Eder Militao and Arda Guler are some sidelined with thigh injuries, portion Rodrygo remains a semipermanent absentee aft sustaining a cruciate ligament wounded earlier successful the season.

The absentee database does not extremity there, with Dani Ceballos besides ruled retired with a thigh problem. Ferland Mendy is sidelined with a ligament injury, Dani Carvajal continues his betterment from a limb injury, and Federico Valverde is absent with a caput injury.

Dean Huijsen is an further uncertainty owed to carnal discomfort, meaning Raul Asencio is apt to proceed alongside Antonio Rudiger successful cardinal defence for Thursday's contest.

Thibaut Courtois should commencement successful extremity down that antiaircraft pairing, portion Trent Alexander-Arnold and Fran Garcia are expected to proceed successful their wide antiaircraft roles connected either flank.

In midfield, Jude Bellingham, Aurelien Tchouameni, and Eduardo Camavinga are each apt to clasp their places, giving Arbeloa immoderate consistency successful the motor country contempt the disruption elsewhere successful the squad.

The biggest question for Arbeloa surrounds Kylian Mbappe, who has returned to grooming aft a hamstring wounded but whitethorn not beryllium risked from the start. Should the Frenchman beryllium held back, Gonzalo Garcia is the likeliest campaigner to pb the onslaught alongside Vinicius Junior.

Real Madrid imaginable starting lineup:

Courtois; Alexander-Arnold, Asencio, Rudiger, F. Garcia; Diaz, Camavinga, Tchouameni, Bellingham; G. Garcia, Vinicius