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Simeone already knows that he loses Herrera for the next key games

It was too pretty to be true. We refer to the fact that the Atletico Madrid could participate in this conference, before the Deportivo Alaves, with all available. It was 31 games that Simeone The infirmary was not empty and when this week he recovered the remaining injured –Lemar and Vrsaljko– everything indicated that this would be the day in which to toast something so strange the case of the rojiblanco team.

However, it will not be so. Simeone will not be able to count on one of the team’s mainstays for the next game, very possibly also for more. We talk about Hector Herrera. Starting in the last seven games (six wins and one draw), he has played 604 of the 630 possible minutes in this stage of the competition, which represents 95.87% of them.

In the absence of the results of the examinations, since the Atletico Madrid has not yet issued a medical report in this regard, the Mexican midfielder will likely miss, at least, Saturday’s game. If his loss goes further, to the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League with the Manchester City or the entire tie, the tests will determine it, although the slightest muscle injury requires, at least, about ten days of recovery.

TEN DAYS OFF

Although it is not official, according to the newspaper Brand, the player will be out for at least ten days due to an injury to the back of the thigh. In other words, he will miss the games against Deportivo Alaves, Manchester City and Royal Majorca, As minimum. In addition, it is a serious doubt for the second leg of the quarterfinals against the English team in the Metropolitan.