Jovic, substitute and injured

Substitute and replaced early. Luka Jovic played just over half an hour in the friendly in which Serbia was defeated 3-0 by Denmark in Copenhagen. He came on at half-time in place of Torino’s Sasa Lukic and retired prematurely eleven minutes from the end of the match with no apparent signs of injury, although the Serbian captain, Dusan Tadic, admitted at the end of the match that the Madrid striker had retired injured. “I think he sprained his ankle, but I hope he’s okay”he said in a statement to the newspaper News.

The play in which the white international apparently injured himself occurred twelve minutes before being substituted, when he received a stomp from Vestergaard in a ball dispute in midfield. Jovic continued playing without apparent discomfort and even the Serbian coach, Dragan Stojkovic, made another change between the stomp play and Jovic’s withdrawal from the field. Jovic was on the field for 33 minutes.

The madridista had just played the second part of last Thursday’s friendly against Hungary, in which Serbia won 0-1. Jovic only finished once in that match. The striker, who did not play in the Clasico despite the absence of Benzema and He has not taken part in any of the last seven Real Madrid games, he has played 474 minutes this season with the white shirt and 333 minutes with his national team. With Ancelotti’s team he has scored one goal, against Real Sociedad, and with Serbia, two, both against Qatar in friendly matches played in September and November.