Pedri, during the Champions League match against Bayern in which he was injured. /
FC Barcelona
The young Barça midfielder has already suffered two relapses from the muscle injury that has kept him out for almost two months
Pedri González will not play again until next year, since the Barcelona midfielder has relapsed again from the muscle injury in the quadriceps of his left leg that has dragged him throughout the season and that has kept him out since last September 29. . The young Canarian midfielder will be out of the pitch for at least another month, as a result of the delay in the deadlines for his recovery. Barça expected the young footballer to reappear throughout December, but another relapse of his ailment has forced the club and the doctors to act prudently.
Recently elected ‘Golden Boy’ as the best European football player under 21 years of age, Pedri has only been able to play four games this season (two in the League and two in the Champions League), after having become indisputable both in Barcelona and in the Spanish team, with which they reached the semifinals of the European Championship and won silver at the Tokyo Games. Since he was injured on September 14 on the first day of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, Pedri has suffered an ordeal on his left thigh.
Last season the 18-year-old midfielder was squeezed and played 68 games over eleven months, that is, one game every 4.6 days. Since he was forced to face Benfica on the second day of the Champions League almost two months ago and has already suffered two relapses during his rehabilitation and has set off alarms in the team now led by Xavi Hernández. From now on it will be Barça’s new physiotherapist, Carles Nogueira, who will supervise the evolution and recovery of Tenerife’s talent.
Xavi already knows that he will not be able to count on Pedri until the second round of the league championship and probably not for the semifinal of the Super Cup that will face Barça with Real Madrid on January 12 in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, Barcelona will wait for Pedri to be, together with Ansu Fati, their great signing in the winter market. At the moment, with both Ronald Koeman and Xavi, it is Gavi and Nico who are trying to alleviate the significant absence of the Canarian footballer, the only Barça player in the men’s category among the 30 finalists candidates for the Ballon d’Or that will be delivered on Monday in Paris.
Real Madrid has also been hit in the last hours by the injury of David Alaba, another player also very overloaded with games, who on Wednesday night suffered a sprain to his right knee that forced him to leave the field in the 64th minute to be replaced by Nacho. Although Carlo Ancelotti assured after the match against the Sheriff that the Austrian defender “is fine, with confidence to play the next matches”, Alaba will miss the duel against Sevilla at the Bernabéu on Sunday, although Madrid is confident that he will be available to play. on Wednesday, December 1 against Athletic, in a postponed match of the ninth day of the League.
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