Jude Bellingham was injured at the start of the duel corresponding to the 22nd matchday of the League that faced Real Madrid this Sunday with the … Rayo Vallecano at the Santiago Bernabéu and will be out for around a month, meaning he will miss, among other events, the Champions League playoff tie that will pit Chamartín’s team against Benfica.
The medical report released by Real Madrid hours after the end of a match in which the Whites won agonizingly 2-1 revealed that the English midfielder is suffering from an injury to the semitendinosus muscle in his left leg, which will prevent him from helping his teammates in the coming weeks.
Bellingham set off all the alarms when he put his hand on the back of his left leg after suffering a puncture while running in search of a ball that threatened to go over the baseline. The Briton’s gestures of pain left no room for doubt. He suffered a major injury that was confirmed by the medical tests he subsequently underwent this Sunday.
This is the second physical mishap that Bellingham has suffered in a season that is being quite irregular on the part of Real Madrid’s ‘5’, in line with the gray tone that his team is showing. It is worth remembering that the man from Stourbridge already missed the start of the campaign after undergoing surgery at the end of the Club World Cup held last summer in the United States to resolve once and for all the problems caused by his left shoulder, which he injured precisely in a league match against Rayo held in November 2023 and which had since forced him to play with protection that limited his movements.
As a consequence of this time under the knife, Bellingham missed the first weeks of the competition and did not return to the playing fields until September 20, when Xabi Alonso gave him a few testimonial minutes in the match corresponding to the fifth round of the League between Real Madrid and Espanyol. Since then, the British player has played 1,974 minutes in 22 games. He has scored six goals and provided four assists, although his performances are still far from those he offered throughout his first season with Real Madrid.
