Real Madrid coach, Santiago Solari has proven a lot in these last three games against Ajax, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, winning two of the three and drawing against the Catalans, especially with each of those coming away from the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. All of Real Madrid's biggest players played a lot and despite the rumours, there was hardly any rotation in the most testing week of the season so far, with Marcelo's introduction for Sergio Reguilon, Marcos Llorente stepping in for Casemiro and Gareth Bale for Lucas Vazquez being the only few. Nacho also played, but his selection was forced by Raphael Varane suffering from flu.
Solari's preferred starting XI then have been through plenty in the last week and it is likely that he will take advantage of the games against Girona and Levante to switch things up some more. The first player to benefit from some rest will be Karim Benzema who played, from the eighth minute at the Amsterdam Arena, with discomfort in his hip. His injury is not serious, but he ended up being replaced by Mariano Diaz so Solari will have to decide what to do against Girona on Sunday.
Benzema has played in 18 of the last 19 games from the start and has accumulated more minutes than all but one other player this season. Solari sees the No.9 as untouchable for the big games as he has 19 goals to his name this term and the Frenchman has already formed an incredible partnership with Vinicius Junior.
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