Karim Benzema did not pass any test on the eve of the Metropolitan Madrid derby and the bad omens that came from the Madrid club during the week were confirmed, confirming the loss of the French striker in the duel against Atletico Madrid for the muscle injury that will keep him from low until October 2.
Benzema’s attempts to arrive in time for the derby have been unsuccessful. Nothing changed on Saturday compared to the rest of the week and the Frenchman was not seen working on the pitch at the start of Real Madrid’s training session open to the presence of the media.
Real Madrid, with the absence of Karim and Lucas Vázquez, who was seen working alone in the training camp, finished the preparation for the duel against Atlético de Madrid with a session in which Carlo Ancelotti will finish profiling the team which will start the match at the Metropolitano.
will be the third match lost Benzema, injured in the Champions League debut in Glasgow against Celtic, was out against Mallorca and Leipzig. The first estimates about the time off will be fulfilled, after confirming that he did not have a damaged right knee but a double injury to his right thigh. They pointed out that he would be low until the return of LaLiga after the national team matcheson October 2, in Real Madrid’s match against Osasuna.
After half an hour of work inside the facilities of the Madrid sports city, the squad jumped onto the main training ground to complete the last session. With Thibaut Courtois exercising from the start in a goal, with specific work as a goalkeeper, the outfield players did a quick warm-up before coming into contact with the ball, with the presence of the Brazilian Eder Militao fully recovered of his small muscle injury and ready to reappear.
Oblak is already discharged
For his part, Diego Simeone, coach of Atlético de Madrid, confirmed the return from Jan Oblak to the goal in the derby, after two low matches for the severe bruise on the left thigh suffered two weeks ago against Real Sociedad at the Reale Arena.
“Yes. It’s going to be“, answered, emphatically, the Argentine coach at a press conference when asked about the doubts of the Slovenian goalkeeper, who returned to training with the group this Saturday for the first time since suffering from that ailment, completed the session with apparent normality after consecutively missing the matches against Celta and Bayer Leverkusen, in which he was replaced by Ivo Grbic; and he will enter this Sunday in the call for the clash.
Oblak is already in conditions to return to the competition, surpassed two weeks in which it has been doubt permanent for each Atlético match. Injured on Saturday 3rd October, in the 75th minute of the duel against Real Sociedad due to a heavy blow to Reinildo Mandava on one occasion by Umar Sadiq, on Wednesday 7th he forced himself to play against Porto and no longer played the duels against Celta , last Saturday, nor Bayer Leverkusen, on Tuesday.
Instead, Simeone will keep the casualties of the other four footballers injured, once neither Stefan Savic, with a muscle injury from four weeks ago; nor José María Giménez, with severe back pain; nor Thomas Lemar, with a strong muscular contracture; nor Sergio Reguilón, who is following his recovery from pubalgia surgery, exercised with the group in Saturday’s session.
The only one of them who was seen on the field during the training of the rest of the team was Lemar, who walked and ran on the pitch in his recovery process from the ailment he suffered last Saturday against Celta and which separated him of last Tuesday’s duel against Bayer Leverkusen. He is not expected to be available for this Sunday. Neither Giménez, who would miss his third consecutive game, nor Savic, was out for the sixth game in a row; two regular central defenders for Diego Simeone, of whom he has not had together this season except against Villarreal, when the Montenegrin was injured in the final stretch.
Likewise, it will continue Reguilón, whose debut is expected after the next national team break nationals after the derby against Real Madrid.
