After returning as starters in Real Madrid's Champions League opener against Stuttgart, Jude Bellingham and Aurélien Tchouaméni are back in Carlo Ancelotti's squad for LaLiga EA Sports, set to face Espanyol. However, the team will be without David Alaba, Eduardo Camavinga, Brahim Díaz, and Dani Ceballos, who are sidelined due to injuries.

Ancelotti has welcomed back two key players who are essential in his starting lineup for the Champions League, and they return to LaLiga after Tchouaméni missed the match against Real Sociedad and Bellingham only played the first match before suffering a foot injury on August 23.

Four players remain in the infirmary, with only Camavinga nearing a return. He has improved from the knee sprain that has kept him out this season and has started training on the field, aiming to rejoin the group next week.

Alaba and Spanish midfielders Ceballos and Brahim still have several weeks left in their recovery.

With Brazilian Éder Militao fully recovered from the knock he suffered in San Sebastián, which led to his precautionary benching in the Champions League, Ancelotti has repeated the squad from the European debut.