A muscle injury to his left thigh, suffered on Wednesday against Liverpool, could cause the French midfielder to miss several matches.
Real Madrid’s trip to Liverpool on Wednesday has definitely caused some damage to the Spanish team. The defeat (0-2), of course, and the penalty missed by Kylian Mbappé which did not help the captain of the Blues to get out of his bad patch.
And now bad luck has also struck another Frenchman, Eduardo Camavinga. Coming off injured on the Anfield pitch, the midfielder is suffering from a muscle injury to his left thigh, the Madrid club announced on Thursday.
“Following the examinations carried out today by the club’s medical department on our player Eduardo Camavinga, he has been diagnosed with a muscle injury to the biceps femoris of his left leg,” Real wrote in a statement, without specifying the length of time the French international will be unavailable.
A long list of injuries at Real
According to the Spanish press, Camavinga, who already injured his knee last September, should miss between two and three weeks of competition. Coming off in the 56th minute when he was the best Madrid player on the pitch Wednesday in Liverpool, the 22-year-old midfielder is suffering from the same injury as his teammate Vinicius Junior, who is also out for several weeks.
He joins the long list of Real injured (Carvajal, Militao, Tchouaméni, Rodrygo, Vinicius, Alaba), a victim according to his coach Carlo Ancelotti of a schedule that is too demanding with matches every three days.
The carnage could even get a little worse according to several Spanish media outlets claiming that Kylian Mbappé, Jude Bellingham and Brahim Diaz had also finished the match with pain and were going to undergo medical examinations on Friday, after the day off granted by the Merengue staff.
