Monday, October 7

Real Madrid closes the year without Carvajal or Bale

EFE

By: EFE

On Real Madrid closed on 2021 with an afternoon training session in his sports city with the absence of the five players infected by coronavirus, Vinícius Junior, Thibaut Courtois, Fede Valverde, Eduardo Camavinga and Luka Jovic , ma s Dani Carvajal for flu and outside the group Gareth Bale , with muscular discomfort.

The last players to test positive for Covid – 19 around the Christmas holidays remain confined to their homes and have been subjected to to new PCR tests on Friday afternoon.

Belgian goalkeeper Courtois already gave two negatives in the last tests and a third is expected so that he can return to training on Saturday with the rest of his teammates, in order to be present on Sunday in Getafe, in the first game of 2022 of Real Madr id.

They are the same cases as the Uruguayan Fede Valverde and the French Eduardo Camavinga , who tested negative yesterday. Depending on the results that will be known on the morning of January 1, Carlo Ancelotti will be able to count on them or they will definitely cause casualty.

It is more difficult for Brazilian Vinícius, whose last result was inconclusive, according to sources from the white club, and ruled out is Serbian Jovic. It also causes loss for the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez Dani Carvajal, which has been added to the muscular problems that it has been dragging since the 19 of December, a flu process that left him at his nursing home. His PCR result was negative.

Meanwhile, alone Bale continued working, suffering from muscular discomfort that will leave him out of the call of Ancelotti, who worked with all the available players in a session of less physical intensity than the previous two since returning to work, with the ball, affecting tactical aspects and a final match in tight spaces.