Carlo Ancelotti meditate giving rest to Fede Valverde this coming Saturday (4:15 p.m./Movistar Plus+), before the Cadiz in it Santiago Bernabeusince five days later, on Wednesday, May 8, the merengue team will have to face a momentous second leg match of the Champions League semi-finals against the Bayern after 2-2 in the Allianz Arena who has left his swords high.
Valverdewho completed the 90 minutes against the Bavarians, is the player who has traveled the most distance in the real Madrid in this Champions (105.3 kilometers in 897 minutes, the equivalent of two and a half marathons), ahead of Rodrygo (101), Bellingham (97.2), Kroos (90.3) and Rüdiger (88.1). A classification that leads Kimmichof the Bayern, with 133.4 km in 990 minutes. The Uruguayan ‘marathon man’ is also the only player in the Merengue squad who has played every possible match this season (48).
At the press conference prior to the visit to Munichthe Uruguayan midfielder admitted that he felt exhausted in the quarterfinals against the City in it Etihad, after playing a grueling extra time that caused him to be ‘erased’ from the subsequent penalty shootout. “Tiredness, fatigue, played tricks on me at that moment and I chose to tell the coaching staff that I was not prepared to take the penalty,” he confessed.
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Valverde has played a total of 48 games this season in all competitions, 43 of them as a starter, distributed as follows: 33 in the League, 11 in the Champions League, two in the Copa del Rey and two in the Spanish Super Cupwhich represents a total of 3,867 minutes played, the highest figure in the squad. Ancelotti. Behind the 48 charrúa games are Rodrygo (46), Joselu (44), Kroos (43) and Rüdiger (42).
We must not forget that Fede Valverde He has also played seven matches this season with the Uruguayan national team (six of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and a friendly). In all of them he played 90 minutes. Ancelotti Might give him a well-deserved rest this weekend.
