Real Madrid’s Spanish defender Dani Carvajal, taken out on a stretcher on Saturday during the La Liga match against Villarreal, suffers from a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee and two other serious injuries requiring surgery, the Madrid club announced on Sunday .
“Following the examinations carried out on our player Dani Carvajal by the Real Madrid medical service, he was diagnosed with a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, a rupture of the external collateral ligament and a rupture of the popliteus tendon of the right leg,” he said. declared the Spanish club in a press release.
The Merengue club specifies that Carvajal, its indestructible vice-captain, will be operated on in the coming days, without estimating the duration of his absence, even if the Spanish player confirmed on his Instagram account that he will have to stay “several months” away from the field.
“I’m already looking forward to starting my recovery and coming back like a beast. Thank you very much for your messages,” Carvajal also wrote in his publications.
The 32-year-old full-back left in tears on a stretcher on Saturday in added time of the La Liga match against Villarreal after a clash with his teammate in the selection Yeremy Pino (90th + 6), causing staff and supporters to fear a serious injury to the knee.
Fundamental in the coronation of La Roja at the Euro this summer and in Real’s historic season last year, notably scoring in the Champions League final against Dortmund, Carvajal should therefore be absent at least until the end of the season, and miss the next club and selection deadlines.
This serious injury, which caused a lot of emotion in Spain, leaves Real without a professional right-back, with only Lucas Vazquez, a 33-year-old winger who frequently helps out in this position but is crumbly defensively.
She intervenes in the middle of debates on the overloaded calendars of professional football, against which Carvajal has railed on several occasions, believing that this pace was simply not sustainable in the long term at the very highest level.
The reigning Spanish and European champion also confirmed that his Brazilian striker Vinicius Junior was suffering from a neck injury, as his coach Carlo Ancelotti announced after the match.
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