Alex Kirkland

We saw Ferlamendi start on Friday against Celta and play for 90 minutes, which, given his injury record, is a near miracle.

Mendy has tended to be reliable in these big games against teams like City.

The question is, can he start again and play anything close to 90 minutes for the second game in five days?

I'd say probably not.

So I think Madrid will be hoping that Carreras gets back at left-back.

I don't think so.

I mean, that was a really tough time going back that far for Real Madrid.

There's that period in the late 2000s where they went through, you know, basically a manager a season and they were really running out of ideas.

Florentino Perez left and then came back again.

And it was only when Jose Mourinho came in and sort of put the foundations in for the period of success that followed under Ancelotti and then Zidane that they got back on track.

I think this Real Madrid team are a mess and it's not often we've seen Real Madrid be a mess

for this much of an entire season.

You know, they might well end this season, let's see, but they might end the season empty-handed in terms of major trophies for the second season in a row.

That just doesn't happen very often at Real Madrid.

Yeah, I think it's a legit observation from Mario.

I think that, like I say, we haven't seen a season like this in which, you know, they had one coach, he didn't work, brought in another coach,

It hasn't worked either.

Yes, the trophies are still to be decided.

We know that.

They could surprise everybody, go on and win the league.