HALA MADRID: Mourinho will be back to Los Blancos? UCL match day coming soon!

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MOURINHO BACK?

Madrid 'linking up Mourinho as a replacement for Zidane' after Mallorca defeat

Real Madrid have already been in contact with former boss Jose Mourinho in anticipation of Zinedine Zidane’s exit, say reports.

OUR UCL MATCH 

Hazard & Kroos return to Real Madrid's UCL squad but Bale & Modric remain out

Modric and Bale, who both missed Saturday's LaLiga defeat to Real Mallorca after picking up injuries on international duty, have also been left out of Zidane's travelling party for Tuesday's crucial UCL group-stage clash away to Galatasaray.

Italian referee Daniele Orsato to oversee Madrid vs Galatasaray clash

It will be the second time that Orsato has directed a Real Madrid match in the Champions League, with the first being the 8-0 win over Malmo in 2015.

WHAT HAPPENED

Madrid has never been eliminated in UCL group stage since new competition system was established in 1992

Since then, Los Blancos have passed all the previous stages in which they had participated and had never started a Champions League with a balance of only one point after the first two matches.

However, Zidane knows that the situation is not irreversible. He was part of the Madrid side in the 2002/03 campaign which reversed an identical situation in the second group stage, which was the format at that time.

Bale, Valverde, Carvajal, Varane & Modric all spent the last two weeks playing across the world before returning to Spain

Real Madrid failed against Real Mallorca with Plan B because Plan A had better things to do, like playing for their countries in the final phases of qualifying.

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Odriozola buys a racehorse before Mallorca game

Odriozola invested in the yearling that was sired by the Epsom Derby Champions and it cost him €50,000 as he expands his Bernardo stud in San Sebastian.

Journalist Sid Lowe: "Today, the competition committee will announce that the Clasico is on 18 December. "

"And then the league will announce that it’s going to challenge that, preferring (4 or) 7 December. They’ll threaten legal action.”

IN-DEPTH

Inconsistency, injuries... The ten reasons for Real Madrid's desperation

Unbeaten going into the game, they emerged hurt and with Barcelona on top of LaLiga, many of the ongoing concerns became even more obvious.

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JUST KIDDING...

When Navas tries to tell unhappy Courtois a joke to cheer him up...

MATCHDAY (CET)

TOMORROW! We must get back on our feet!