Carlo Ancelotti confirms Real Madrid's plans for Kepa Arrizabalaga & Andriy Lunin

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti has vowed to select a new starting goalkeeper soon after Kepa Arrizabalaga completed his move to the club.

Kepa was signed on a season-long loan from Chelsea to replace the injured Thibaut Courtois, who is likely to miss the vast majority of the current campaign after suffering a serious knee injury which saw him go under the knife earlier this week.

Madrid are set to take on Almeria on Saturday in their second game of the season, and while Ancelotti was concrete on his goalkeeper selection for this particular match, he left the door open to a change going forward.

"[Kepa] is settling into the groove with his teammates really well and he's shown what we already knew, that he has quality and is a personality between the sticks," Ancelotti told a press conference.

"Since he's still adapting, and Lunin did a great job in Bilbao, we'll start with Lunin [against Almeria]. We'll see in the next few games.

"Kepa has a very high level and he's young, but already boasts international experience. Lunin lacks that experience a bit, which is to be expected from such a young player. We won't rotate the keepers. They are both very good, but one will get more minutes than the other."

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Courtois' injury came just days before star centre-back Eder Militao suffered the same problem. While a new signing was made to cover in goal, Ancelotti backed Castilla centre-back Marvel to help cover for Militao in defence.

"We're well covered in that position, we have highly experienced players," he explained. "Marvel has trained with us this week and we have other guys who are making brilliant progress. Until we get Militao back, we'll use the academy lads to fill that fourth centre-back role."

With serious injuries seemingly becoming more frequent in recent weeks, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola blamed FIFA and UEFA for endangering players with an overloaded schedule, but Ancelotti insisted the explanation may not be so malicious.

He said: "It's difficult to know what causes it. We have to evaluate a lot of things and we are doing so. Militao was in great shape in terms of his strength, and the same goes for Courtois. There was no alarm bells in that sense.

"Sometimes a player lacks a bit of balance in terms of strength but all the data we have analysed gave no sign at all of anything untoward. It's just been bad luck for both of them."

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