He was starting to catch a glimpse of the end of the tunnel, but it would seem that Ousmane Dembélé had relapsed. French striker FC Barcelon e, who suffered a muscular bicep injury to the right thigh on November 27 and has been absent since then, was hit in the thigh in training again on Monday, a announced the club by press release.
“During training this morning, the first team player Ousmane Dembélé felt discomfort in the right thigh following muscle fatigue. The player will continue his recovery program, "said the Catalan club.
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Durante el entrenamiento de este lunes, @Dembouz ha notado unas molestias en el muslo derecho como consecuencia de la fatiga muscular. El jugador seguirá con su trabajo de recuperación pic.twitter.com/6km6hNqqUM
According to the Spanish press, Dembélé (9 games, 1 goal this season) left the training session before his teammates, visibly affected by the hamstring muscles of the right leg. The duration of his unavailability has not been specified by the club, but the French could be uncertain for the knockout stages of the Champions League in Naples on February 25, and for the clasico return against Real Madrid in Santiago -Bernabeu, March 1.
Victim of a "muscular injury to the femoral biceps of the right thigh" on November 27 against Borussia Dortmund, his former club, in the Champions League, the 22-year-old international left winger (21 selections for the France team) had still not returned to competition.
Fourth injury of the season, the sixth since arriving in Catalonia
While the club had assessed his absence at ten weeks (that is to say until mid-February), the former Rennes had resumed training with the rest of the group a few days ago. Barça even posted a tweet with a photo of the player in training on Monday, which he later deleted. A blow for the Catalan team, which decided not to recruit a striker during the winter transfer window to compensate for the absence of Luis Suarez, operated on the right knee on January 12 and absent until mid-May, in betting on a return close to the French winger.
Four months before Euro 2020, Ousmane Dembélé, no longer called to the Blues since November 20, 2018 (against Uruguay, in friendly), is already in his fourth injury this season. This is at least Dembélé's sixth hamstring injury since his first season at Barça in 2017, where he had been absent for five months due to a ruptured femoral bicep tendon in the left thigh, this time . Its start to the 2019-2020 season has already been disrupted by five weeks of absence between September and October.
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