Reasons for Zidane not to call up James and Bale

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Reasons for Zidane not to call up James and Bale. EFE

Zinedine Zidane does not want to risk James Rodriguez, who suffered a blow at the Metropolitano and is still recovering from this, according to 'AS'. Gareth Bale's absence might be because the Frenchman wants to give him a rest after the surge of games he has played in the last few weeks.

Real Madrid continue in La Liga in a positive way, but they want to add to this and get their first Champions League win of this season. After the hard 3-0 defeat against PSG in Paris, Madrid want to secure all three points in their visit to Club Brugges.

Zinedine Zidane surprised with the call-up, leaving out footballers James Rodriguez and Gareth Bale. In another way, he has called up the likes of Isco and Marcelo, two players who have still got to get into the rhythm of the competition after being out with their respective injuries.

According to 'AS', the Colombian's absence must be because he is still suffering a knock from his injury against Atletico Madrid. Zidane, who is obviously aware of this, does not want to force the Colombian, who has become a key member in the team at the start of this season.

Without him, Luka Modric starts instead, who has already played some minutes at the Metropolitano in the second half. Zidan'es desire is to tone him as soon as possible so that the team has more options in the middle.

Bale's absence from Zidane's list is also fairly reasonable. The French coach does not want to over-exert the Welshman amd wants to give the number '11' a good rest after the game against Atletico.

Zidane knows the fragility of the former Tottenham, especially at the beginning of the campaign, and is afraid of causing a possible injury now that he is gradually getting back on the team.

Both James and Bale, will be 100% for the future league match against Granada in the Santiago Bernabeu.