Real Madrid team news: BBC start together for first time in 279 days

The last time the trio lined up from kick-off together was in April's Clasico, but they are back to take on Liga high-flyers Valencia

's BBC forward trident will start a game for the first time in almost a year as the Merengue face a tough test away to .

Karim Benzema, Gareth Bale and Cristiano Ronaldo last lined up in the same starting XI in April's Clasico meeting with .

Since then 279 days have passed, with the trio unable to function together due to injury problems for Bale and Benzema at various points of the 2017-18 season.

The BBC was reunited last week, however, when Benzema came on towards the end of Madrid's 7-1 thrashing of Deportivo, and now play from the off at Mestalla against the high-flying Che.

The Merengue are indeed at near full-strength, with Sergio Ramos the only notable absentee from Zinedine Zidane's favoured line-up as Nacho deputises at centre-back.

But playmaker Isco has been banished from the match-day squad after reacting angrily to his substitution during the final minutes of Madrid's humiliation at the hands of midweek.

Valencia: Neto; Montoya, Coquelin, Garay, Lato; Guedes, Parejo, Kondogbia, Gaya; Rodrigo, Mina.

Substitutes: Jaume, Maksimovic, Vidal, Andreas, Soler, Vietto, Zaza.

Real Madrid: Navas; Carvajal, Nacho, Varane, Marcelo; Modric, Casemiro, Kroos; Bale, Benzema, Ronaldo.

Substitutes: Casilla, Llorente, Theo, Vazquez, Asensio, Mayoral, Kovacic.