Dani carvajal He will be back on the pitch next weekend. After almost a month injured, the winger will return to face the I raised at Alfredo Di Stéfano for the 21st League match (January 30 at 4:15 PM at Movistar + LaLiga). Has not played since January 2 against him Celtic, when he hobbled away in the last few minutes. Since then, he has lost four games: against Osasuna (fulfilled the yellow cycle), Athletic, Alcoyano and Sports Alaves.
In total, the player raised in La Fabrica has been low on 14 duels this season. An injury to the medial collateral ligament in his right knee caused him to miss more than a month and a half of competition. Just a few days later he returned to the infirmary due to muscular discomfort that made him miss another two weeks. Finally, this new injury that has only allowed him to play one match in 2021. He has only played one match of Champions League, and has not been in others as important as against him Barcelona or the Seville. He is on his way to what may be his worst season in this regard.
Unfortunately, physical problems have been recurring for Carvajal during the last years. Since 2015-2016, it has been lost 65 matches for different injuries, most of them muscular. His worst course is still 2018-2019, when he was down 15. He lived a break last (2019-2020), when he was only inactive once and it was due to the flu. The thighs are her weak point, the area of your body that has created the most headaches.
Madrid, aware that Carvajal needed to reduce his load of minutes to avoid this type of injury, signed Alvaro Odriozola in 2018. He paid 30 million to Real Sociedad for what was, at that time, the right-back with the most progress in Spanish football. However, its performance has not been at all as expected. Since his arrival three seasons ago (with a loan to Bayern Munich in the middle), He has only participated in ten games.
In their place, other players have had to emerge who, although they are not full-backs, have had greater confidence from Zinedine Zidane. The first was Nacho, a multipurpose that the coach has used in all positions of the defense. This season the most common as a substitute for Carvajal has been Lucas Vazquez. What started out as a patch ended up becoming Zizou's preferred option. The Galician already He has 12 games at the position this season.
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* Data updated as of January 26, 2021