It's a temporary stop for Real Madrid. After the last match against Cádiz, the players have been released to join their national teams. Those who are not summoned will enjoy three weeks of vacation. The players are scheduled to return on December 1. It will be then when Carlo Ancelotti and his coaching staff will begin a kind of preseason to get ready for 2023.

During this month of November, the footballers who are not with their national teams will work with their personal trainers. Those who are eliminated from the World Cup will have ten days of vacation before joining the team. This may cause there to be players who do not return until December 28, that is, a few days before the whites' first game after the break against Valladolid.

Starting in December, the idea of ??Ancelotti and Antonio Pintus, physical trainer of the first team, is to prepare at the Ciudad Deportiva de Valdebebas for the remaining five months of the season. Above all, in a very demanding month of January in which they will play at least seven games in 30 days and in which the second title of the season will be played: the Spanish Super Cup.

There is also the idea of ??friendlies, but normally they are held behind closed doors. It is a common practice in recent preseasons since the pandemic began. Since then, Real Madrid played against Getafe (2020), Fuenlabrada (2021) and Rayo Vallecano (2021). Duels that serve to recover the competitive rhythm and reach the match against Valladolid in the best possible shape.

This is a situation never experienced before. For the coaching staff, it is unknown how the players will arrive after the World Cup and how difficult it will be to keep them all 'healthy' during the last five months of the season that promise to be exhausting. Pintus's role will be key to reaching the final stretch in the fight for all the titles.