They join the Madrid infirmary and do not travel with their teams during the break

Fede Valverde is injured. The alarm went off within the Vallecas stadium. At 82 minutes of the match between Rayo Vallecano and Actual Madrid, the Uruguayan positioned his hand on the again of his proper thigh and with none drama went on to the bench to ask for a change.

Trent Alexander-Arnold changed him in a gesture that Actual Madrid’s medical companies would see hours later as the start of the inevitable final result of an overload gathered over current weeks.

The exams carried out this Monday confirmed what the Uruguayan footballer’s physique had been indicating for a while: an damage to the semimembranosus muscle of his proper leg. The estimate factors to an absence of roughly ten days.

The damage is especially important contemplating that simply 5 days earlier, after the match towards Liverpool, Valverde had proven discomfort in his adductor on the sector.

On that event, the primary examinations dominated out damage, though the discomfort endured. It was exactly that accumulation of effort, with out intermediate restoration, that lastly took its toll on the Vallecas group.

With an estimated restoration time of every week and a half, Valverde’s participation within the subsequent league match stays up within the air: the journey to Elche, scheduled for November 23.

The November calendar requires cautious timing with Valverde: after Elche, the journey to Athens awaits to face Olympiacos within the Champions League, earlier than closing the month towards Girona.

The Actual Madrid infirmary goes by way of one in all its most tough moments of the season with as much as seven gamers out concurrently. And we should additionally add Thibaut Courtois, with bodily issues which have additionally left him with out touring along with his nationwide group through the break.

Shortly after Valverde’s medical report was issued, Madrid introduced that the Belgian suffered an damage to the adductor longus muscle in his proper leg. The approximate time he will probably be out can be 10-12 days, so his presence towards Elche will depend upon how properly he progresses.

The infirmary is full

Probably the most critical case corresponds to Dani Carvajal, who suffered a brand new damage to his proper knee. A free joint physique detected after El Clásico on October 26 compelled him to bear an arthroscopy, protecting him out for between six and ten weeks, virtually till 2026.

His absence leaves the right-back place solely within the fingers of Alexander-Arnold, who has solely performed a handful of video games this season following his personal hamstring damage in September.​

In midfield, Aurélien Tchouaméni was injured in his left semitendinosus after the match towards Liverpool, with an estimated absence of three weeks. The Frenchman had began virtually each recreation of the season, changing into an immovable piece of Xabi Alonso’s scheme.​

The protection has different casualties: Antonio Rüdiger continues to get better from his rectus femoris damage since September, along with his return scheduled for December. David Alaba suffers overload in the suitable soleus and will reappear throughout November.

Lastly, younger Franco Mastantuono continues to be awaiting progress after being identified with pubalgia. This cascade of accidents has compelled the group to compete with fewer obtainable gamers than Xabi Alonso would really like.