Zidane's 'tragic' week

Shortly before the players jumped onto the Valdebebas pitch to prepare for the last training session before taking on Levante (Sunday, 4:00 pm), the club's press reported a new injury to a Real Madrid player. In this case it is Álvaro Odriozola. The winger suffered a blow during the penultimate session that leaves him out for the next ten days. After being explored, the medical services diagnosed an injury in the calf of the left leg. It is the fourth injury of a Madrid player in a week. Now Zidane will have to choose between Nacho or Lucas Vázquez to occupy that demarcation, Without forgetting the option of Mendy, who already played in that position (just 45 minutes) against Eibar in the return to competition in June. He supplied Carvajal to have some rest.

Zidane has seen how in a week four key players have fallen into his schemes. The first was Kroos, who fell in pain in the match against Betis. He noticed discomfort in his hip and preferred not to risk it. He was replaced at halftime. The German suffered a “muscle injury in the left gluteus medius” (according to the official medical report). He was diagnosed with a two week recovery. The player replied through his social networks: “I'll be back in nothing.” The game against Valladolid has been lost, and now that of Levante. It remains to be seen that he will attend the call of his team to play two games in the League of Nations.

The second was harder, because of how striking and unexpected Eden Hazard has been, that the same day of the match against Valladolid his ailment was made public. In his case, the medical report reports a muscle injury in his right leg. Pending evolution ”. That ‘pending evolution’ is estimated to be between three and four weeks out, although the player's environment lowers it to a period between two and three weeks. What is clear is that it will surely not be in the Classic on October 24. His dismissal has conditioned Zidane's plans, who in the press conference prior to the Valladolid match calibrated his status: “I see him very close. He is ready ”, which made it possible to anticipate that he could have minutes against the Pucelano team

The third was Dani Carvajal's, which leaves the white defense lame and adds to the loss of Militao, out of the group since last September 15, when he suffered a blow in the only friendly that Madrid has played this preseason against Getafe (6-0) . The Madrid winger was injured in training yesterday. He was diagnosed with an injury to the internal lateral ligament of his right knee, which will take him off the pitch for two months. Odriozola, his substitute theorist, also fell in that session.

And tomorrow awaits Levante, a team that defeated the Whites last season… and that always complicates the games for the Madridistas. Zidane will have to invent something again to get the three points of his visit to the Ciutàt.