Real Madrid has paid a very high price for the game against Espanyol. The defeat has come to add the injury of his most reliable defense, the German central Antonio Rüdiger. The player was injured shortly after starting and the tests carried out this morning have detected that it is not a mere overload but suffers an injury in the femoral biceps of the right leg, according to the medical part. Although there is no talk of recovery deadlines, club sources believe it will be out of two to three weeks.
If these deadlines are confirmed, the German will miss the derby on the 8th against Atlético at the Santiago Bernabéu and the first leg of the playoff in the Etihad before the City. It seems unlikely to be for the return in the Bernabéu. In the club they even speak that this would be almost like a miracle.
If so Madrid would play the tie without its three most important defenses: Carvajal and Militao, long -term casualties and now Rüdiger, the most solvent in the rear. Ancelotti must improvise for the axis with Raúl Asencio, a canterano with very little experience and a converted midfielder, Tchouaméni, who offers many doubts where he plays where he plays and to which the Bernabéu has taken the enrollment. Another option would be to recover David Alaba, but the Austrian is gradually entering the team since his injury in the crusade for more than a year and since then he has only played half an hour.
Rüdiger was one of the players most used by Ancelotti this season. Until his injury the German had played 2,996 minutes in 35 games. He had scored two goals.
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