“Toni Kroos has chosen the perfect player to take the number 8” – Ancelotti hails ‘irreplaceable’ Fede Valverde after Real Madrid win
After a laborious first half against newly promoted Real Valladolid in La Liga on Sunday (August 25), defending champions Real Madrid broke the deadlock after the break through a drilled free-kick from Fede Valverde. Not just with the all-important strike, the Uruguayan international was an absolute metronome in the middle of the park, grafting up and…