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Real Madrid will once again be led by F Karim Benzema, who was the top goal scorer of the league last season with 27 goals. Madrid's backline is laced with ...

It should be able to get on the board at least once in its home opener. Real Madrid will once again be led by F Karim Benzema, who was the top goal scorer of the league last season with 27 goals. Real will again have M Casemiro helping deliver the attacking balls. Almeria had a terrific home record last season with 14 wins in 21 matches. Real did beat Eint Frankfurt in the UEFA Super Cup Wednesday. Almeria welcomes Real Madrid to Estadio Mediterráneo Sunday. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. ET (ESPN+). Below, we preview the Almeria vs.

Real Madrid will travel to Valencia, Spain for their opening clash of the LaLiga 2022-23 campaign as they take on Almeria on Monday (August 15), as per IST.

Almeria have qualified first time after 2014-15 season and have worked very hard to get into the Spanish top-flight in those seven seasons in Segunda. (Robert Lewandowski along with THESE new signings to play for FC Barcelona in LaLiga) Where is the La Liga match Real Madrid vs Almeria going to be played? Karim Benzema and the other players looked fit in the pre-season matches of Real Madrid. Carlo Ancelotti will look to begin his title defense with a thumping victory over Almeria. (Ballon d'Or 2022 winner: Karim Benzema to Robert Lewandowski, top contenders - In Pics)

Real Madrid open up their LaLiga campaign against Almería on Sunday, and are expected to make changes to the team that began the Super Cup.

Valverde has claimed that he is at his best in the middle of the park and this is a prime opportunity for Toni Kroos, another who put in a significant shift on Wednesday, to rest for bigger tests to come. “Those who didn’t play today will get their chance soon,” the Italian said. “I’ll freshen the team up a bit on Sunday.” Chief among the changes expected at Power Horse Stadium is the inclusion of two summer signings, Antonio Rüdiger and Aurélien Tchouaméni, who are in line to make their domestic debuts for Madrid.

We go over everything you need to know for Almeria vs. Real Madrid on Matchday 1.

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Los Blancos are coming off a solid win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the UEFA European Supercup Final and Almeria have just promoted, so it's clear that ...

Ancelotti will need to keep his reserves involved as the veterans will surely be forced to rest some games right after the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Real Madrid should be looking to keep gaining confidence and momentum for what’s going to be a very long and busy season. The Italian coach announced that he will be making some rotations so this could be Antonio Rudiger and Aurelien Tchouameni’s first chance to start a game for Real Madrid. Dani Carvajal and Rodrygo Goes are not available, so Ancelotti will have to replace them both as well.

Almeria predicted XI: Rubio, Pozo, Ely, Babic, Akieme, Hoz, Samu, Portillo, Robertone, Ramazani, Sadiq. Predicting Real Madrid's starting lineup is not easy ...

Rodrygo and Carvajal will miss the game and the Italian coach has many options to replace them both. Los Blancos are coming off a win against Eintracht Frankfurt in the European Supercup Final and coach Carlo Ancelotti announced that he will be making some rotations for tonight. Predicting Real Madrid’s starting lineup is not easy given that nobody knows how Ancelotti’s depth chart looks at the moment.

After claiming the UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki on Wednesday, Real Madrid now get set to begin La Liga play as they open their domestic campaign on the road ...

Sun, Aug 14 Sun, Aug 14 Sun, Aug 14 There won't be any way through for Almeria, who are surprisingly backed by bookmakers to score against the reigning league winners. David Alaba is projected to take over left-back duties, while Lucas Vazquez replaces the injured Dani Carvajal (ankle) at right-back. Although a likely transfer target, Nigerian international Umar Sadiq is expected to lead the line for the newly promoted side against Real Madrid, looking to translate his 18-goal, 12-assist season last year into the Spanish top flight.

Almeria vs Real Madrid predicted line-ups Almerias predicted line-up (4-3-3): Fernando Pacheco; Alejandro Pozo, Rodrigo Ely, Srdjan Babic, Sergio Akie.

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After claiming the UEFA Super Cup in Helsinki on Wednesday, Real Madrid now get set to begin La Liga play as they open their domestic campaign on the road ...

Sun, Aug 14 Sun, Aug 14 Sun, Aug 14 There won't be any way through for Almeria, who are surprisingly backed by bookmakers to score against the reigning league winners. David Alaba is projected to take over left-back duties, while Lucas Vazquez replaces the injured Dani Carvajal (ankle) at right-back. Although a likely transfer target, Nigerian international Umar Sadiq is expected to lead the line for the newly promoted side against Real Madrid, looking to translate his 18-goal, 12-assist season last year into the Spanish top flight.

Real Madrid starting XI: Courtois, Vazquez, Nacho, Rudiger, Mendy, Tchouameni, Kroos, Camavinga, Valverde, Vinicius, Benzema. Almeria starting XI (TBC) : Rubio, ...

Available Streaming: ESPN+ Available TV: Movistar La Liga, ESPN+ Real Madrid have published their starting lineup for the upcoming match against Almería, La Liga's opener for both sides.

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Vinicius makes a late run into the box, but he is stopped in his tracks by Fernando before he can strike. Costa cuts the ball back into the area, where Portilli shoots first-time, but his shot is blocked. Alaba's cross evades everyone, but Vazquez arrives late to drill a low shot towards goal from the edhe of the box, but Fernando parries it away before it can curl in at the far post!

When the defending champions of a league take on a newly promoted side, one expects nothing short of demolition of the latter. The same can be said about ...

Captain Karim Benzema starts as the central striker on the night. He will be supported by young Eduardo Camavinga and the debutant Aurelien Tchouameni in the middle of the park. Carlo Ancelotti’s side take on UD Almeria at the Estadio del Mediterraneo and will look to capitalise on Barcelona’s early slip-up.

Real Madrid came back from behind to get their Liga title defence off to a good start as Los Blancos sealed a 2-1 win over Almeria at Estadio Mediterraneo.

Ramazani is 1 v 1 with Courtois, and strokes the ball calmly into the bottom-left corner to give his side a priceless lead! It's Lucas Vazquez with a powerful strike from inside the area! The pick of the saves was in the 37th minute. However, after Madrid kept plugging away to try and find the winner, it eventually came through a moment of brilliant quality from David Alaba, as all Madridistas breathed a sigh of relief with 15 minutes to play. Almería took their chance when it came in the ninth minute, and made the most of their back-five formation, sitting deep when out of possession. In terms of shots, you can see from the statistics that Carlo Ancelotti's side had much more of the superiority in this game.

Reigning champions Real Madrid kicked off their La Liga season on a positive note as they edged past Almeria 2-1 in an away game, here on Sunday.

They nearly found one when Lucas Vazquez put the ball in the nets before half-time but it was denied for the offside call. Real Sociedad defeated home side Cardiz in another game on Sunday. Takefusa Kubo scored in the 24th minute to give his team a 1-0 lead in the game. Almeria went for a sublime start as former Manchester United striker Largie Ramazani scored the opening goal just six minutes into the game to put the hosts on a 1-0 lead.

David Alaba's inch-perfect free kick earned Real Madrid a 2-1 comeback victory on Sunday night and gave it the perfect start to its La Liga title defense.

In the first half, we had good opportunities and were unfortunate not to score, but the team continued to show belief and it's a deserved win in the end. We knew it was going to be tough against a newly-promoted side in front of their home fans," he told the Real Madrid website "We had a tough spell, but I think ultimately the win and the way the team felt out there are positive. After the goal, the game swung in Real's favor as it turned up the pressure, but it still took a moment of magic to get a winner. I'm pleased to have helped the team out with a goal and the most important thing is the win." Toni Kroos' delicate cross into the box was volleyed home by Vázquez, only for the linesman to rule it offside.

After a Saudi takeover helped propel them back to La Liga, the minnows pushed the European champions all the way.

Ramazani too was expected to go – although he insisted he wants to stay on Sunday. This is a club “in construction”, in Rubi’s euphemistic words, the return to primera met with excitement and gratitude but uncertainty too. A club with the resources to get there – far more so than others in segunda – and in theory to stay there. The following season, a goal in the last minute of the last game took the title off Eibar – somehow defeated at already relegated Alcorcón – and sent Almería up as champions instead. What comes next is unclear too, with the club over their salary limit – in part at least because of the cost of promotion. The former minister of sport, chairman of entertainment authority, advisor to the crown and president of the Arabic football federation, he has a fortune of €2,100m. They still don’t have mugs in the club shop, but he did raffle off Audis at games to encourage fans to turn up, paid for coaches like Emery and Quique Setién to come and chat football with him, and got videos from Charlie Sheen, Snoop Dogg, Diego Maradona and Dennis Rodman. How, he didn’t say, but then it was more about the photos, the noise made. Re-founded in its current guise in 1989 and beginning in the local leagues, they reached the first division for the first time in 2007, as UD Almería and with Unai Emery as coach. We have taken the best team in the world to the edge.” There had been a reaction to resist, goalkeeper and DIY enthusiast Fernando Martínez making three hugely impressive saves and Madrid racking up 12 corners and 17 shots in the first half, seeing a goal disallowed for offside too – but the storm had abated a little. After seven years away from the first division, it took less than seven minutes for Almería to score there, earlier than anyone had done against Madrid in 15 years. Almería had returned to primera for the first time since 2015, faced Real Madrid in their opening game, and proprietor and president Turki Al-Sheikh, the minister in charge of entertainment at the Saudi royal court, didn’t have much faith. Which is one way to describe Largie Ramazani. Because now, five days later, Al-Sheikh was sitting alongside Florentino Pérez in a plush sofa a little out of place in a football stadium and watching the impossible happen below, like some act of divine intervention.

(REUTERS) - Real Madrid recovered from conceding an early goal to beat newly promoted Almeria 2-1 in their opening match of the La Liga season on Sunday ...

Lucas Vazquez scored the equaliser from a rebound after another individual effort from Vinicius in the 61st minute and substitute David Alaba scored the winner, with his first touch, from a free kick into the upper left corner in the 75th minute. Real piled on the pressure after the break when Ancelotti sent on veterans Luka Modric and Eden Hazard from the bench in place of young French midfielders Eduardo Camavinga and Tchouameni, who struggled to make an impact. (REUTERS) - Real Madrid recovered from conceding an early goal to beat newly promoted Almeria 2-1 in their opening match of the La Liga season on Sunday (Aug 14).