Just three days before appearing at Anfield to face Liverpool in the Champions League, Carlo Ancelotti began to lose another of his fundamental pieces on Sunday night in Butarque. Vinicius finished the game with discomfort in his left thigh. It seemed very loaded. This Monday, already in Valdebebas, the medical services performed tests on the painful area and found “an injury to the femoral biceps of the left leg,” according to the statement published on the website. This is the same muscle that he tore last November, although this time the extent is much smaller. The club hopes that he will be available again in time to play in the Intercontinental Cup final on December 18 in Doha. “The crazy calendar…” Vinicius complained in X this Monday shortly after his injury was confirmed.
When he alerted this Sunday of the problems in the back of his left thigh in the Butarque locker room, he had just played the 90 minutes. They added to the 180 of Brazil’s two games during the break: against Venezuela on Thursday the 14th and against Uruguay on Wednesday the 20th, a match in which he faced his teammate Fede Valverde, who also remained on the field until the end .
Last year, when Vinicius was injured in the same muscle in his left thigh in a match with the Brazilian team in Colombia, the problem also affected his distal tendon, which ended up leaving him out for 42 days, triple what was expected this time.
The Brazilian’s loss adds to the long list that has damaged Carlo Ancelotti’s squad, and that mainly affects the defense. Along these lines, the Italian is missing two right backs (Carvajal and Lucas Vázquez), two center backs (Alaba and Militão) and a midfielder who could be a center back (Tchouameni). Furthermore, in attack, Rodrygo continues to recover from the injury he suffered in the match against Osasuna and now Vinicius has also fallen.
Until December 18, the date of the Intercontinental Cup final, Madrid has two Champions League games and four League games: Liverpool (November 27), Getafe (December 1), Athletic (December 4), Girona ( December 7), Atalanta (December 10) and Rayo Vallecano (December 14).
