Sporting Gijon vs Real Madrid
La Liga 17:00 (GMT) December 3, 2011 El Molinon, Spain
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MANAGER QUOTES
Right-back Alberto Lora is expected to be missing from the Sporting squad with a hamstring problem, with Damian Suarez likely to come in. Mate Bilic is fit up face but will probably start on the bench with captain David Barral operating as a lone forward. Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo is fit after missing some training this week with a twisted ankle. Xabi Alonso is suspended which could give Lassana Diarra, Nuri Sahin or Esteban Granero a start. Ricardo Carvalho is out with a knee knock, while Alvaro Arbeloa also remains absent. Kaka could back to the bench.
MANAGER QUOTES Manuel Preciado: To follow Jose Mourinho: To follow
MATCH FACTS
Madrid have kept a clean sheet on their last six league visits to El Molinón (four wins, one draw). Sporting were one of two teams who managed to win at the Bernabéu last period in the league (along with Zaragoza). Real Sociedad are the only side to have scored more than once at El Molinón in La Liga: the other two teams to win there both did so by a 1-0 scoreline (Barcelona and Valencia). José Mourinho’s side are on a run of nine straight league wins, their top run since the Portuguese’s arrival at Madrid. The whites’ tally of 46 league goals is their most-ever at this stage of a season. The current table-toppers have won the final 71 league matches in which they have taken the lead. Madrid are the best away side in the league this season with five wins, and are top-scorers on the road (18). The whites have scored the most goals from outside the box (5) and in the second half (27) and are the just side yet to concede a headed goal in La Liga this season. Cristiano Ronaldo has scored his last 17 league penalties, a longer run than any other player in Europe’s top five leagues (David Villa, 15). Three of Real Madrid’s four league defeats final season came without Xabi Alonso in the starting XI, one of them against Sporting.
MATCH ODDS
Sporting 12/1, Real Madrid 2/9, Draw 5-1
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