Plague of cruciate ligament tears hits Real Madrid

Injuries have hit the defense particularly hard.

Injuries have particularly affected Real Madrid’s defence. At the moment the team has seven woundedonly three of them fell against Osasuna (Militao, Lucas Vazquez and Rodrigo) and five play defensive roles. They are only available to Ancelotti. central defender Rudigerand two full-backs, Mendy and Fran Garcia.

He makes up for the loss of Courtois Lunin. Carvajalwith an already operated rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, will not return until next season; David Alabawith the same diagnosis, will do this no earlier than 2025; Lucas Vazquez The adductor muscle is affected, although they will do more testing and ChuameniAncelotti Emergency Center, suffered an ankle injury that will keep him out until mid-December.

solutions the Italian against Osasuna should have been placed Valverde as a defender

and give access to player “B”, Raul Asensio.

Ancelotti again points to the “busy calendar” as the reason for these types of injuries, as “they do not allow the players to rest well.” The number of injuries, including those with a long-term prognosis, could force Real Madrid to wait until the winter market arrives to be able to sign and strengthen the central defensive axis, but the Italian rules this out “for the moment.” : “We will evaluate this in the next few months. Now there is nothing left to do but try to recover. as many players as possible, and then in January we will evaluate what can be done,” he concluded.