The ‘crusader crisis’ hits Real Madrid again, which on Saturday once again experienced a nightmare that has haunted the club in the last 15 months. Militao, once again, is the latest case of a serious knee injury that since last season has been shaking the sporting foundations of the ‘White House’ to a dramatic rate of one cruciate tear every month and a half. It is the average that results after suffering 10 crossed in the last 15 months.
The data is scary, it is worrying and it has not stopped growing since In August 2023, this plague of extremely serious knee injuries began that has put Real Madrid on the ropes. The first to fall into this critical period was Courtoisthat the August 10 of last year suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, for which he underwent surgery a week later and which left him 222 days off. With almost no time to assimilate the hard blow of losing his number 1 in goal, the second blow came two days later with the injury of Military in San Mamés: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the left knee and 231 days away from the playing fields. Ancelotti’s defensive line split in half at the first change.
The Belgian goalkeeper published a ‘teaser’ on social networks of a documentary with Prime Video about his recovery.
They didn’t have a month’s respite in the white club when the crusader’s alarms went off again in Valdebebas, this time hitting the women’s team. At the end of September Caroline WeirHe suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. playing with Scotland in a UEFA Nations League match. Four weeks later, another crusader. This time it was Carla Camacho the one who said goodbye to the season after getting injured with the under 19 team and undergoing surgery for a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in the left knee.
August, September, October… and December. After the four crusaders at the beginning of last season, another one would arrive, that ofAlaba. The centre-back increased Ancelotti’s defensive drama after being seriously injured on December 17: rupture of the left anterior cruciate ligament. An injury from which still recovering almost a year later after having suffered some complication that forced him to go through the operating room again.
The Real Madrid center back was injured in the San Mamés match against Athletic
The ghost of the crusaders once again flew over Real Madrid as soon as preparation for this season began. During the tour of the United States, the youth player’s cruciate broke Cesar Palacios during the first friendly against Milan. The Factory would be hit on two more occasions during the month of August. After César Palacios would fall injured Innkeeper and shortly after Joan Martinezthe center that was going to be Ancelotti’s great bet to reinforce a defense center that had been left very short of troops after the departure of Nacho, the complications of Alaba and the non-signing of Yoro.
The player confirmed on his networks the seriousness of his knee mishap
As if Madrid’s defense had suffered few blows in recent months, serious knee injuries have continued to affect that line of the team. On October 5, the Bernabéu fell silent with the cries ofCarvajal. It was almost the last play of the game against Villarreal and the full-back suffered a terrible injury: rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, rupture of the external collateral ligament and rupture of the popliteal tendon in his right leg, which will keep him out of action for about a year. One month later, now it’s Militao the one whose crusader has broken again for the second timenow the one on the right knee, to top off 15 dramatic months at Real Madrid.
