Who: Oviedo vs Real MadridWhat: Spanish La LigaWhere: Estadio Carlos Tartiere in Oviedo, SpainWhen: Sunday, August 24, at 9:30pm (19:30 GMT)How to follow: We’ll have all the updates on Al Jazeera Sport from 6:30pm (16:30 GMT) in advance of our live text commentary stream.The La Liga season reaches its second round of fixtures with a potentially early-season giant-killing in the offing.Newly promoted Oviedo will not be expected to take much from the record Spanish league winners, Real Madrid.Los Blancos limped over the line last weekend in their first match of the new season, Xabi Alonso’s first in charge.Al Jazeera Sport takes a look at what could be an even bigger banana skin on Sunday.How are Real Madrid shaping up?Alonso took charge of Madrid before the FIFA Club World Cup, in which his new charges reached the semifinals before suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain.After a short close-season break, Real returned to training before edging Osasuna 1-0 on Tuesday thanks to a Kylian Mbappe penalty.“After a two-week preseason, against a team who had longer, there were things missing, but the result gives us stability going forward,” said Alonso after that match. Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe celebrates scoring his side’s goal against Osasuna [Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]What are Oviedo’s credentials?Oviedo returned to Spain’s top flight after an absence of almost a quarter of a century by beating Mirandes in the second-tier playoff final in June.The club from the northern region of Asturias, coached by Serbian former player Veljko Paunovic, were therefore left facing a quick turnaround before tackling life back in La Liga. Advertisement How did Oviedo fa …
