He has become a regular at the Valdebebas gym with the partner he had to supply. Álvaro Odriozola has missed another train again. The day after Carvajal injured his knee, leaving his right back vacant for two months, the Basque was also injured and went on to occupy the infirmary with the Leganense. What was going to be a quick recovery because his own environment downplayed the ailment (officially a muscle injury) is already going for five weeks off. Worse still (for him), Carva He is popping out of the Valdebebas grass and could be ready for the second half round for teams. A golden opportunity that Odriozola missed and went into the arms of another norteño, the reinvented Lucas Vázquez.
Zidane has had to find a life for himself. During Carvajal's absence, Nacho, Mendy and Lucas Vázquez have passed through his post.. Three footballers who are not wingers, while Odriozola saw everything from the sidelines. A footballer who is not to the liking of Marseille and who knows that its presence is purely economic: the side that had a market and for which Madrid knew it could raise a good amount of money was Achraf…
Carvajal, like Nacho, jumped onto the grass last week and ran continuously. He's close to coming back from his injury.
One thing is the wallet and another the ball. When Lucas committed the penalty at Mestalla and was shot by Gayà as he was not a specialist as a winger, many wondered how much Carvajal had left and what was Odriozola's. The silence around the San Sebastian has been almost total.
Your market value goes down the drain …
This season he has barely worn the Madrid shirt 6 percent of possible minutes (57 'of 990') between Zidane's lack of faith in him and that injury, the season was already a warning because he barely had 18.5% (434 'of 2,340') before leaving on loan to Bayern and while the previous one, the first in the white house (2018-19), its participation was 36%. A nosedive, like its market value, which has gone from 30 million (what it cost Madrid) in 2018 to the current € 14 million for a side who has a contract as a Madrid player until 2024. A collapse of more than half. Not even the absence of Carvajal, the absolute master of the 'two' in Madrid, has served him for the moment to come back.