This Sunday’s game against Rayo Vallecano appears on the calendar as an opportunity for Dani Carvajal begins to fight to recover its leading role in the Real Madrid. Conditioned by the consequences of a serious knee injury, since he recovered from the arthroscopy he underwent at the end of October, in three months he has only played 27 minutes.
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Neither the muscle injury of Trent Alexander-Arnoldwhich, for the second time this season, left the Real Madrid during a period without his two pure right backs, has promoted the return of Carvajal.
The one from Leganés has been in the squad since January 4, but his last start dates back to September 27 and in 2026 he has only played 13 minutes against the team. Albacete and 14 against the Monaco. “Con Carvajal “My main objective is that I can have continuity and surely go a little slower than I should go,” he confessed. Alvaro the blackboard suggesting that his intention was to give the captain more minutes but his physical condition did not allow it,” the coach explained at a press conference.
“My main objective is that I can have continuity in training, that I can add minutes, that I do not relapse from injury, because with all the players who return from injury I like to go little by little, with patience, knowing that the demand is maximum in each game we are playing,” he added, without revealing whether Carvajal It could be one of the novelties of his starting team against the Ray Vallecano.
