Carvajal, two months away

The bad news continues for Zidane regarding injuries. As reported by Real Madrid in an official part, Dani Carvajal has been injured in training this Friday morning, while the team was exercising to prepare for the match against Levante. “After the tests carried out today on our player Dani Carvajal by the Real Madrid Medical Services, he was diagnosed with an injury to the internal lateral ligament of his right knee. Pending evolution ”, reads the club's letter. According to sources from Madrid itself, it could be two months off, what It would make him miss, for sure, the 25-O Classic and the first Champions League games.

Odriozola He was substituted in the second half of the match against Valladolid but has no injury. Zidane changed it, precisely, for Carvajal. But it was something that was already planned. Either way, If the Basque could not start against Levante on Sunday, Zidane has an alternative with Nacho, who has played in that position many times, or he could even use Mendy with a changed leg and put Marcelo as a starter on the left. The same reasoning extends to all the games in which Carvajal is out.

Injuries are raging once again with Madrid at this start to the season. Currently, apart from Carvajal, Hazard, Militao and Mariano (the latter due to tonsillitis) they swell the nursing part. Of all of them, the Brazilian center-back begins little by little to integrate into the dynamics of the group.