Real Madrid defender Lucas Vázquez joined the club’s long injury list on Friday.
Madrid, Jan 6 (IANS) Real Madrid defender Lucas Vázquez joined the club’s long list of injured players on Friday with a muscle injury that will prevent him from taking part in his Copa del Rey debut on Saturday against Arandina and in next week’s Spanish Super Cup. Cup in Saudi Arabia.
“Following the scans carried out today by the Real Madrid Medical Services, our player Lucas Vázquez has been diagnosed with an injury to the semitendinosus muscle in his right thigh. His evolution will be monitored,” the club said, without speculating on a return date, Xinhua reported.
Vazquez joins Thibaut Courtois, Eder Militao, David Alaba and Ferland Mendy on the injured list, with the added challenge for the coach that all injuries are defensive, restricting his duties to resting players in an intense phase of the season when they play in La Liga. . , Cup and Super Cup, before the second leg of the Champions League in February.
Ancelotti has Nacho Fernandez, Dani Carvajal, Fran Garcia and Antonio Rudiger as his only fit specialist defenders, with Aurelien Tchouameni playing as a makeshift central defender in its narrow win at home to Mallorca on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, FC Barcelona has confirmed that full back Joao Cancelo suffered, “a strained medial collateral ligament in his left knee,” in Thursday’s narrow win in Las Palmas.
Although Barcelona has also failed to give a return date, Cancelo also seems certain to miss the Supercup.
–IANOS