Vrsaljko already works on the lawn

Nine days after his surgery for the fracture of the zygomatic arch suffered in the Champions League game against Porto, Sime Vrsaljko He already trained this Sunday on the pitch, on the rojiblanco team’s return to work after the third defeat in a row in the league, 2-1 against Sevilla, and with his sights set on Granada, where on Wednesday he will close the year with a duel postponed.

The Croatian international full-back was the novelty of the training session, in which Diego Simeone kept the casualties of José María Giménez, Stefan Savic and Antoine Griezmann, in the process of recovering from their respective muscle injuries. It does not seem that any of the three will be available to the technician for the clash at the Nuevo Los Cármenes stadium.

Nor will Marcos Llorente be in that meeting, injured in the hamstrings in the first half of this Saturday’s game against Sevilla at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán stadium. In the absence of evidence, the player’s own gestures betrayed a pull in that muscle, which means that his contest in Granada is ruled out.

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