After their fifth consecutive league win against Espanyol, Real Madrid have just three fixtures left in LaLiga Santander before the Christmas break.
Zinedine Zidane wants to have all his key players available for the games against Valencia, Barcelona and Athletic Club, but that may not be the case.
Casemiro has been sitting on four yellow cards since the start of November, which means he's just one away from a one-match suspension.
If the Brazilian is booked against Valencia on Sunday, he'll have to sit out the Clasico with Barcelona the following Wednesday.
"He has to put up with [risking suspension] again," Zidane said after the Espanyol victory.
"Until when? I don't know. He's got four yellows and we'll see."
Casemiro has a good disciplinary record against Valencia recently, with no yellow cards and no fouls in each of his last three outings against them.
Ameerul24
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Jovic - Let him play Vinicius - Let him try to score Brahim - Give Him Chance James - Gives opportunity to attackers Valverde - Control the midfield Modric - ^ Odriozola - Carvajal wont get suspended Militao - Let him play more games and he will show his quality ( no ramos so that he won get a red) Varane - ^ Nacho - Mendy red Aerola - compete with courtois for el classico gk
__kat02
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calamity for the defense one holding midfielder is not enough to hold madrid mid field again thats y casemero and valverde must play together
and playing casemiro against club brugge is useless and against Valencia we will be forced to rest him bcoz one yellow card and then our defense will be weak against barca
jamiinBlaze
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simple he should be rested to Valencias match
__kat02
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calamity for the defense one holding midfielder is not enough to hold madrid mid field again thats y casemero and valverde must play together
but club brugge is a dead game bro ,we don't need to win , we can rest our first team players for Valencia and Barca match and our youngsters will get playing time
kayreal
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we should rest casemiro against club brugge as well as against Valencia , he has played every match till now with madrid as well as Brazil , if we don't rest him now then he has high chances of getting injured
calamity for the defense one holding midfielder is not enough to hold madrid mid field again thats y casemero and valverde must play together
__kat02
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we should rest casemiro against club brugge as well as against Valencia , he has played every match till now with madrid as well as Brazil , if we don't rest him now then he has high chances of getting injured