The postponement due to DANA of the match that was scheduled for this Saturday between Valencia and real Madrid in Mestalla has caused a nine-day break in the white team’s busy schedule that will allow the Uruguayan Fede Valverde, the player with the most minutes in the squad (1,302 out of a possible 1,350, 96.4%), to have a break in his demanding start to the season. season.
Prominence to which we must add two international breaks with Uruguayplus the long trips with the change of continent. Valverde has played three full matches of the four qualifiers for the World Cup 2026 of Marcelo Bielsa’s team.
In total, of 19 games in the 2024-2025 season, Valverde has played 18 and only in two has he not played 90 minutes: cagainst Alavés (69) and against Celta de Vigo (63, after the international break in November). A use of Fede Valverde that there are no signs of changing, given what happened in previous seasons.
Faithful reflection of his importance at Real Madrid and of great physique that treasuresthe Uruguayan only missed out on playing in one game, against Granada in the final phase of a League that the white team already had in their pocket.
Not even in the first round of the King’s CupAgainst a smaller rival like Arandina, they stayed at home. What’s more, this match was one of the six games in which Valverde was a substitute last season.
In total, 4,280 minutes in 54 games in the 2023-2024 season; the player who spent the longest time on the pitch last season, as is the case in the current one.
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A Fede Valverde who inherited the ‘8’ from Toni Kroos for this season and, although far from being the same profile, he is being indispensable for Ancelotti.
After 15 games he has already equaled his goals from last season, with three, and all of them were fundamental when opening the scoring; especially the one that gave Real Madrid its first title of the season against Atalanta (2-0) in the European Super Cup.
Capital importance of a footballer who faces nine days without games. between the Classic against him FC Barcelona and the party of Champions before him Milanthe longest period for him so far this season and with two months remaining in the year in which he will continue to accumulate minutes of maximum demand on his legs: ten with the real Madrid and two with Uruguay.
