Real Madrid knew its black Tuesday. A few days after losing this Copa del Rey final against FC Barcelona, the Madrid received up to three bad news in the same day. First, Antonio Rüdiger's operation, which has been dragging knee problems for months already, and which will be unavailable for 6 to 8 weeks. If it is true that he could not have played in Liga anyway with this suspension of six games, he also may miss a good part of the World Cup, even the whole competition.
Behind, we also learned that Ferland Mendy was going to be out for the rest of the season. The French left side was the victim of a rupture of the tendon of the right quadriceps and will be absent for two and a half months, which does not give him a priori the slightest chance of replaying even in the event of a good journey in this new tournament. Then, to finish this disastrous day, the Merengues supporters learned the tear at the meniscus of David Alaba, which we will therefore never see more before next season since we also mention two months of minimum absence in the Spanish press …
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Injuries that are added to that of Eduardo Camavonga, already absent for everything that remains of this exercise 2024/2025, and those of Dani Carvajal and Éder Militão. Suffice to say that Carlo Ancelotti will have to do with the means at hand during this final Sprint of the Liga, while Real Madrid has still five games to hope to double FC Barcelona, which is four points ahead in the classification of the Spanish championship. In particular, there will be a clasico on May 11 which promises to be more than decisive and for which the Italian coach will therefore be deprived of several important pieces.
It is especially in defense that he will have to tinker, with Fran Garcia and Lucas Vazquez as the only trade laterals, they who are normally not holders, and Raul Asencio as the only central defender available (Jesus Vallejo no longer counts), which will probably force Ancelotti to align Tchouameni as a central hinge or test a defender of the youth teams. But whatever it is, it is a scenario that the Italian would have gone well for this final sprint of the championship …
