Real Madrid and Milan are going to face off on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 4th week of the Champions League. The match is going to take place in Madrid at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu. The encounter will be officiated by Slavko Vinčić.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Real Madrid
Real Madrid has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up during the season (2 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (2 times) and 4-4-2 (once).
Carlo Ancelotti is expected to play against Milan with the following players: Andriy Lunin, Ferland Mendy, Éder Militão, A. Rüdiger, Lucas Vázquez, E. Camavinga, Federico Valverde, A. Tchouaméni, J. Bellingham, Vinícius Júnior and Kylian Mbappé.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Real Madrid would be 26.09.
Carlo Ancelotti will probably not be able to employ Rodrygo because of injury.
Thibaut Courtois, David Alaba, Daniel Carvajal and Brahim Díaz will definitely miss the match.
Milan
Milan has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (2 times or 66.67%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (2 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Paulo Alexandre Rodrigues Fonseca is expected to play against Real Madrid with the following players: M. Maignan, T. Hernández, S. Pavlović, Malick Thiaw, Emerson Royal, T. Reijnders, Y. Fofana, Noah Okafor, Christian Pulišić, Samuel Chukwueze and Álvaro Morata.
If the line up is confirmed, the average age of Milan would be 25.91.
M. Gabbia, Ismaël Bennacer, Alessandro Florenzi and L. Jović will definitely miss the match.
