Marcelo, Baptista, Robinho and Gago rejoin the squad

All of the squad's 27 men were at training this morning and listened to Schuster's briefing, in which the coach analysed last night's game against Hannover 96. The squad divided into groups to tackle different exercises. Yesterday's starters did recovery work, while the rest worked on dribbling exercises and played a practice game. Ruud Van Nistelrooy and Fabio Cannavaro worked out on their own to recover from their injuries; the latter never left the gym.

Real Madrid's physical fatigue took its toll last night in the friendly against Hannover 96. This morning's training session took place at the AWD Arena and was attended by the 27 players of the squad -Marcelo, Robinho, Gago and Baptista rejoined the team yesterday.

Training started with Bernd Schuster's briefing, which lasted for over five minutes and served the coach to anaylse last night's encounter. After this, the squad was divided into groups. Fabio Cannavaro left the pitch in order to to some recovery work on the bruise on his left leg in the gym.

Once again, Ruud van Nistelrooy also trained on his own doing recovery work on his injury. He jogged and did several ball exercises with recovery expert José Luis San Martín. Dudek, Guti and Soldado still suffer from mild niggles, but they worked with the the largest group -Saviola, Granero, Pepe, Salgado, Adrián, Codina, Emerson, Metzelder, Iker Casillas and Alberto Bueno-, whose work was much more intense.

Those who arrived yesterday joined this group for warm-up and the physical obstacle course. They jogged and did series of skipping, zig-zags, sprints, changes in pace, etc. Guti led the group. The three Brazilians and Gago left to train under the supervision of physical coach Jordi García, and the keepers joined keeper coach Pedro Jaro to do some specific exercises. The rest practiced dribbling, passing and touching the ball, and worked on one-on-ones and two-on-ones.

Baptista, Marcelo, Robinho and Gago joined them again to play a practice game in which they had to score in a goal defended by Codina on one end of the pitch, and in small goals at the other end in order to improve on last night's poor aim. Many goals were scored by the recent arrivals and by Saviola and Pepe, who always score many strikes in training sessions. After the game they worked on set pieces from outside the box.

ORANGE TEAM: Salgado, Metzelder, Marcelo, Guti, Baptista, Bueno, Soldado.
BLUE TEAM: Pepe, Granero, Emerson, Gago, Robinho, Adrián, Saviola.

Yesterday's starters -Torres, Ramos, Balboa, Higuaín, Raúl, Cicinho, De la Red and Diarra, tackled mild stretching exercises on mats and did some recovery work in the gym. Cicinho decided to jog around the pitch prior to entering the gym.

The squad, besides the recent arrivals, will have the afternoon off. They will all return to training tomorrow morning prior to leaving for Moscow, where they will play in the Russian Railway Tournament against Lokomotiv Moscow, Milan and PSV.

taken from realmadrid.com