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Real Madrid loses Ferland Mendy three to four weeks. The left side was injured in the second half of Wednesday’s derby in the Metropolitan. A lesion in the femoral biceps of the left leg that will prevent you from playing at least 20 days, which makes it Doubt for the first leg duel of the Champions League on April 8 against Arsenal in Emirates.
Mendy was being the left side of Carlo Ancelotti In the last Champions League qualifiers. The Italian coach trusted his defensive capacity to stop the attacks both Manchester City as of Atlético de Madrid. However, a bad gesture in a transfer behind Courtois He caused his injury, from which the Frenchman was immediately aware. Ancelotti had to resort to Fran Garcíawho played the rest of the regulatory time and the extension with remarkable performance.
The Real Madrid goalkeeper, very critical in the mixed area.
Thus, in the best case, Mendy would arrive, although fair, to the first leg of the Champions Finals before the Arsenal (April 8)with some remote option, to reappear on the previous League day, before the Valencia. If the most pessimistic forecast is fulfilled, four weeks off, at best could come around the Bernabéu before the ‘Gunners‘, next April 16.
200 games with Madrid
The circumstance was given on Wednesday that Mendy played against Atlético His 200 match with the Real Madrid shirt. The defense, who played 83 minutes After being replaced by injury, it reaches this figure in its sixth season in the first team, with which you have won 13 titles.
Mendy The Real Madrid debuted with Real Madrid September 1, 2019in a duel at home in front of the Villarreal. Since then he has added 136 wins and his 200 meetings are distributed in: 128 League games, 53 of Champions, 6 in the Copa del Rey, 11 in the Spanish Super Cup and 2 in the European Super Cup.
