In the comeback against Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid lost Rodrygo and Courtois for next Saturday’s classic (9:00 p.m., Dazn). The Brazilian was injured in Lucas Vázquez’s 3-2 play. He stretched to prevent the ball from coming out and keep the play that ended in the goal alive, and in that gesture he suffered a break in the hamstrings of his left leg. The first scans carried out on him this Wednesday ruled him out for the match against Barcelona, although they did not fully determine the extent of the ailment, in the absence of an MRI that would allow the damage to be assessed and the necessary recovery time to be estimated.
For Courtois, the club’s medical services found this morning “an injury to the abductor of his left leg”, which they believe will keep him out for about two weeks, so, in addition to the classic, he would also miss the match against Valencia at Mestalla on November 2 and Milan’s visit to the Bernabéu on the 5th.
This is the goalkeeper’s second muscle injury this season in the same left thigh. On September 29, the lighters derby at the Metropolitano ended with problems. Then, the damaged muscle was the adductor and caused him to miss the games against Lille and Villarreal.
These two ailments in Courtois’ left thigh are not the same injury, but they are connected. At the club they relate them to the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee that he suffered in August of last year. One of the side effects of the recovery process from such a serious problem is that the soccer player begins to use muscles that were not used to that load with greater intensity.
The Belgian goalkeeper has already linked two muscle injuries in the same area in less than a month, which will once again give opportunities to Lunin, who will appear in the Bernabéu goal on Saturday, two days before traveling to Paris to participate in the gala. of the Ballon d’Or, where he is among the candidates for the Yashin award for best goalkeeper of the year, for his performances last season during Courtois’ long injury. The Ukrainian was decisive in the Champions League round of 16 tie against Leipzig, and especially in the penalty shootout of the semifinal against Manchester City. The Belgian could only play in the final.