Real Madrid and Leganés will play a friendly game behind closed doors at Valdebebas this Friday. Both teams want to keep improving their form and conditioning ahead of the official start to the 2025-26 season and these friendlies can help the coaches implement the tactics and systems they want to use during the year. This friendly between Real Madrid and Leganés will likely be a shortened one, with two halves of just 30 minutes each in order to avoid muscle fatigue, according to COPE and AS.
Real Madrid will play their only official friendly match next Tuesday, when they will face Tirol in Austria in a conventional 90-minute game. That match will kick off at 19:00 CEST.
Leganes just got relegated to Segunda División and they will try to claw their way back to LaLiga this season. Facing Real Madrid now could help them assess the quality of their roster and whether or not they’re ready to compete for such an ambitious goal.