The French midfielder is injured and the Italian had to turn to the Castilla star.
Aurélien Tchouaméni is considered Real Madrid’s third central defender by Carlo Ancelotti, but due to his absence against Osasuna, the technical director decided to summon a Castilla central defender who played 45 of the 49 games in the 2023/2024 season.
With all the minutes played in 11 duels in the current campaign, Raúl Asencio was called up by “Carletto” in an emergency due to the cataract of injuries that the “Merengue” has in that area of the field (Joan Martínez and Jacobo Ramón, for example).
An unofficial debutant in one of the last friendlies of the “White House”, the 21-year-old was involved in the Madrid “Canteranos Case” in 2023 when, along with three teammates, they received a complaint in which they were accused of an alleged crime of discovery and disclosure of secrets of a sexual nature.
As a result of this internal problem, Asencio could not travel to a match with the Real Madrid first team against Alavés, despite being summoned by Ancelotti, so that his presence would not generate a public and media stir that the club did not want to encourage, lowering him of the payroll at the last minute.
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