The high risk with Casemiro Real Madrid Has featured heavily for Real Madrid and Brazil

The 2019/20 season could be renamed after Casemiro, the man who plays almost all the games for Real Madrid and Brazil.

Neither Zinedine Zidane nor Tite can afford to leave out the midfielder, with Casemiro having played 1,114 minutes of a possible 1,170 minutes (from the 13 games possible) since the season started, which equates to 95.4 percent.

On Thursday, with Brazil, Casemiro added another 90 minutes in the Selecao's 1-1 draw with Senegal, and everything indicates that he will once again start against Nigeria on Monday, despite the match having nothing at stake. As such, this will further increase Casemiro's percentage of minutes played.

However, it's not just Tite who is squeezing all that he can out of the Brazilian. At Real Madrid, Casemiro is the most used player by Zidane, not even resting in the game against Osasuna where the Frenchman rested up to seven starting players.

So far in this campaign, Casemiro has played every minute, aside from the last 30 minutes against Levante. He was taken off, along with Sergio Ramos, with Los Blancos 3-0 ahead, yet they almost allowed Levante to come back into the match as the match finished 3-2.

Now, the dilemma for Zidane is whether to rest the 27-year-old for the game away at Real Mallorca on October 19 ahead of the trip to the Camp Nou the following weekend.

Prudence suggests that Casemiro will be given a break, but the shortage of midfielders - particularly in the holding-midfield position - makes it difficult, with Toni Kroos injured, Fede Valverde not returning to the Spanish capital until Friday, and the 34-year-old Luka Modric having played two full games with Croatia over the international break.