Mendy, two months out

The first training session of the week started with one negative and two positive news for Real Madrid. The refusal is the loss of Ferland Mendy for the next two months. The white team issued a statement explaining that the French side suffered “an injury to the semimembranosus muscle of the left leg”, which will keep him off the pitch until next April, just when the slide of League, Club World Cup, Cup and Champions League matches that the madridistas will have to face in these eight future weeks has passed, with matches almost every three days.

Mendy was injured in the last cup derby. At first, they waited until Saturday for the player to undergo medical tests, but it was not until today, at the end of January, when the tests diagnosed both his injury and the estimated time he will be out. In this way, he joins Lucas Vázquez, who continues with his recovery process. It is estimated that the Galician may still be close to a month before returning.

While, Carvajal and Tchouameni completed full training sessions with the group. Neither of them showed any signs of trouble, but the French pivot appeared with a strong bandage to do the session, which began with exercises inside the Valdebebas facilities before jumping onto the pitch, where the session continued, doing physical work, round and ball possession and pressing series. The two could have a medical discharge for the match against the Valencian team, but for the competitive discharge it will be necessary to wait for the decision adopted by Ancelotti.

Alaba, meanwhile, was doing individual training on the pitch. The Austrian could join the group but, obviously, could not enter the list (or yes). It will be in the last session before facing Valencia (Thursday, February 2, 9:00 p.m.) when it is decided what will happen to him. Alaba has barely played so far in 2023, since he was injured in the first league game of the year, against Villarreal on January 7. He has missed the last six games (including the two games in the Super Cup, two in the Cup and another two in the League), and more than the five games he was out at the end of last season after being injured in Pamplona. Then he was diagnosed with an injury to the abductor muscle in his right leg, but since then, the Austrian has not had any remission of various muscular ailments. It is expected that he can be definitively recovered for the Club World Cupthat the whites will begin to play from next week.