Real Madrid | From injury to injury until final victory

The list of injuries suffered by the Real Madrid dressing room this season is longer than the number of games Ancelotti’s team has played. Rare is the meeting in recent months that does not end with another footballer in the infirmary. The games against Getafe and Athletic were an oasis after a streak of eight games that ended with twelve victims. In the last two, the bad dynamic has returned: the visit to Girona ended for Mendy with a muscle injury in his right quadriceps and Mbappé returns from Bergamo with discomfort in the back of his left thigh, pending the tests he undergoes. will submit on Thursday. 27 injuries of varying severity that have plagued the first team, but to which Madrid overcomes time and again to continue fully in the fight for the League, stay alive in the Champions League and win in the Intercontinental which could be the second title of a season full of obstacles, plagued by injuries.

Madrid suffers more than one injury per game. Atalanta’s match was Ancelotti’s 23rd match this season and his players have suffered 27 losses due to injury.whether they were traumatic, muscular, simple discomfort… To this we must add that Alaba already began the campaign carrying the cruciate fracture from the previous year and that Two youth players who went on the tour of the United States, Palacios and Joan Martínez, were also injured before starting the competition.. The first during the stay and the second a few days after returning. From the count we have also omitted a common illness, the gastroenteritis that Lunin suffered in October and that prevented him from going with his team in the second break.

An indisposition, that of the Ukrainian, that did not make him miss any game with Madrid. One of the few footballers who can say that they have been available for Ancelotti at all times. You can’t count them on the fingers of one hand, but almost. Fran García, Rüdiger, Valverde, Modric, Güler, Endrick and Lunin himself are the seven members of the first team who have not yet gone through the infirmary.

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The longest absences are those of long-term injuries. Alaba, who is finalizing his return when he is about to complete a year since his injury, has missed all 23 games. Carvajal has already been absent in eleven games (he had previously not been in another due to a blow) and Militao has already been absent for six. Apart from these, only three other injuries have meant more than a month of absence for their victims.. Camavinga was out for a month and a half (nine games) due to the sprain he suffered on the eve of the Super Cup; Brahim, 39 days (eight games) for his injury to the adductor longus in his left leg; and Ceballos, 32 days (6 games) for a sprained right ankle.

Despite the busy schedule, no other player has so far been out of action for five games in a row.although in some cases, as happened to Courtois, it has been due to the succession of national team breaks that have interrupted the competition in this first third of the season. In total, among the fifteen injured, they have been out for a total of 94 games.

Last season, at this point Madrid had already suffered 19 injuries, eight less than now. Of course, longer. In addition to the cruciate tears of Courtois and Militao, there were eight other injuries that exceeded 30 days of recovery.

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