Real Madrid changed its doctor rather than its coach. Niko mihicas the team’s new medical supervisor, arrived a week before (January 4) the departure of Xabi Alonso (January 12). The medical revolution prior to that on the bench sought to straighten out a season that was going downhill due to injuries. The club’s concern with the incessant drip of physical problems that has limited and conditioned the team’s performance. An unrest that has become desperate in the noble area of Valdebebas: “This is impossible,” they lament.. A helplessness that lives the umpteenth chapter after the last two blows that have come from the infirmary. The hardest, that of Militao, who will have to undergo surgery this week to resolve the muscle injury to the biceps femoris of the left leg who suffered against Alavés. He misses the World Cup and will see part of the next season mortgaged because he will be close to five months off. The other blow is that of Mbappé, which although it is much less serious (an injury to the semitendinosus muscle in his left leg that does not rule him out for the Classic) It does not stop hurting because it is the finishing touch to a season marked by the French star’s physical problems.
State of alert with the future of Militao
Militao points to the operating room
The consequences of the latest mishap Military are yet to be quantified. It is not a question of how long it will take to recover, what is seriously worrying in Madrid is whether the Brazilian will return to his old self and what his competitive level will be in the long term. All this based on the fact that it faces the third surgery in four years and that in recent seasons he has only been able to play 52 games of the 179 played for Madrid. A 29% participation which has set off alarm bells in Madrid in the face of a future that leaves a lot of uncertainty regarding the Brazilian’s availability and his ability to physically live up to Madrid’s demands. A situation that is compared to that of Mendy: zero doubts about its quality, but many about its availability. The French full-back, like the Brazilian now, has been a coin in the air for years. This season is just the latest example: 87 days off after three more injuries and only eight games played.
Another very hard blow
Militao’s injury is one more crack in Madrid’s defensive ‘wall’, greatly weakened by injuries. In this sense, there is a piece of information that is devastating. The defense with which Madrid won the Champions League in 2022 in Paris, Carvajal, Militao, Alaba and Mendy, all of them still on the squad, they have only been able to play together since then in 10 times! Since May 28, 2022, all of them have accumulated serious injuries that have ruined what was Real Madrid’s gala defense. Carvajal has once again gone through an ordeal of injuries, such as Praise. A circumstance that places them on the exit ramp in summer. This season, the five players who have missed the most games and who have accumulated the most days out are defenders: Mendy, Militao, Carvajal, Trent and Rüdiger. A circumstance that has caused Madrid to line up until 32 different defenses throughout the season to navigate the defensive drama.
55 injuries this season and 118! in the last two
Mbappé: “I may be indirectly responsible…”
With the injuries of Militao and Mbappéare 55 those that Real Madrid has suffered so far this season. Added to the 63 from last season, there are 118 injuries those that the white team has suffered in the last two years. Between Atlético (65) and Barcelona (82) there are 147 injuries in the same period of time. A difference in the number of physical problems that is making Real Madrid compete in an alarming inferiority of resources. This season, Madrid has managed to accumulate 11 injuries in the month of Novemberthe highest peak of a dramatic sequence in which in five months he suffered 39 injuries: October (7) November (11) December (7) January (7) and February (7). At this point, just Vinicius, Fran García, Gonzalo and Brahim They have not been injured. The other 20 players on the squad have suffered some physical problem, with up to 13 players out for more than 50 days and eight with more than 100 days out of combat. A devastating report that has the club in check, which has not managed to put a stop to this crisis.
Rodrygo, Bellingham, Courtois, Camavinga, Huijsen…
The arthromotor used by Rodrygo in his recovery
Real Madrid has seen how half of its squad has been marked by injuries throughout this season. He has already started competing without Mendy, Endrick and Bellinghamwho were recovering from serious injuries from the previous season. In the case of the Englishman, his shoulder plagued him last season and this current physical problems have once again kept him from his best level. After recovering from shoulder surgery, the muscle injury in February stopped him cold again. Jude has been out for 111 days and that has taken its toll on him. Camavinga, Courtois, Rüdiger, Trent or Huijsen They are some of the heavyweights whose losses have done a lot of damage throughout the season. Not to mention Rodrygowhose cruciate injury left him out of action at the beginning of March, canceling any market movement in the summer and conditioning his preparation for very late next season. Because injuries have not only hit Madrid throughout the season, they have also condition your future planning due to the doubts generated by the physical condition of several players. Carvajal and Alaba They finish their contract and aim to leave, with Rüdiger its renewal and players who will continue, such as Militao, Rodrygo and Mendythey need to have their backs covered due to the uncertainty they generate.
