Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti says Eden Hazard will start against Real Mallorca today.

Hazard will step in for the injured Karim Benzema.

Ancelotti said, "Hazard played against Celtic and he'll do the same tomorrow. I hope he can put in a repeat performance. Injuries happen. Benzema had a small issue against Celtic and he was out for a while in December last year too and we managed to replace him just fine.

"The team played brilliantly without him against Celtic, especially up top, and I hope to see more of the same tomorrow".

"We won't rush Benzema back. He won't play on Wednesday and then we'll see if we can get him back for the derby. If he doesn't play then, I don't think he'll join up with France. Karim scores a lot of goals and that helped us to win several trophies last year.

"If we're waiting on a player's fitness that's a positive thing, it's not negative. This team has real quality up top with Vini Jr., Rodrygo, Hazard, Asensio and Mariano in certain games, he's very good in the air.

"We have loads of resources to continue our decent run. We don't have a natural replacement for the best centre forward in the world. There is no substitute for him on the market but he can be replaced by other players with different attributes."