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Real Madrid drew a blank in their penultimate game of the season but no one in the Santiago Bernabeu seemed to care about the 0-0 result with Betis as they sent the players off with an ovation and said goodbye to Marcelo who was almost certainly playing his last game for the club.
When the final whistle blew Marcelo and 40-year-old Joaquin, playing his 600th game in La Liga, both bowed down to each other in the centre circle.
The latter wants another season in La Liga, the former wearing the captain’s armband, has probably played his last game in Spain having finished his contract at Real Madrid.
Real Madrid played their strongest line-up featuring top scorer Karim Benzema
Carlo Ancelotti joined his players in the middle of the pitch at the end of the game. He has made little secret of the fact that he planned to play his Champions League final team in the last game of the domestic season.
If he stays true to that it will be the Brazilian Rodrygo in attack alongside Karim Benzema and Vinicius, with just three midfielders – Toni Kroos, Casemiro and Luka Modric – and no Fede Valverde.
With David Alaba still out injured it was Nacho alongside Eder Militao and that will be the pairing if the Austrian does not recover. Dani Carvajal and Ferland Mendy completed the
