Militao Injury Update: 3-4 Month Recovery Timeline

Real Madrid does not win for bad news. The defeat against Celta at the Bernabéu, which led to a delicate sporting situation in the run-up to the Champions League duel against Manchester City, was compounded by the injury to Eder Militao, their best centre-back this season, who will be out of the playing field for three to four months after suffering a tear in the femoral biceps of his left leg.

After two serious tears of the anterior cruciate ligament of the knee, the first in the right leg in August 2023 and the second in the left foot in November 2024, half a year after returning to the playing fields, Militao was being a defensive pillar for Xabi Alonso’s Real Madrid this season.

The Brazilian already suffered a physical ailment in the adductor magnus of his right leg a little over two weeks ago, in the middle of the November national team break, when he suffered it during the friendly between his team, Brazil, and Tunisia. He only missed the league visit to Elche and the Champions League trip to face Olympiacos, as he reappeared in Girona, as a starter, and also played from the beginning in the matches against Athletic and Celta, a duel in which he was injured again, this time more seriously.

This season he has played 16 of the white team’s 21 official matches since the start of the season, 15 of them in the starting eleven, and due to the physical problems of Rüdiger, first, and Huijsen, later, his absence constitutes a notable absence for Xabi Alonso, who has injured full-backs Carvajal, Alexander-Arnold and Mendy.