Real Madrid, leaders of the Spanish Football League, suffered a setback four games before the end of the season, with the injury of its left back, Marcelo, in the left thigh muscle, the club reported Friday.
A brief statement to the Royal Club stated that Marcelo, 32, was "injured by a thigh muscle, and his recovery will be continued," without mentioning the period he will be absent from the stadiums, but the Madrid newspaper "S" reported that the Brazilian international "will miss what Between two and three weeks, he will return to the Champions League, "whose competitions will be completed on August 7th.
Real, who leads for a second title only in La Liga in eight years and the first since 2017, leads the point a difference from the arch-rivals Barcelona, the champion of the past two seasons, and an opportunity will be available for him to return the four points difference if he beat his guest Deportivo Alaves at the end of the 35th stage today, Friday, three stages before From the end on 19 July.
Marcelo did not participate in group exercises yesterday, Thursday, on the eve of the Alaves meeting, and the French coach Zinedine Zidane had previously stated that his defender was suffering "from a slight injury and I hope it is only a minor injury."
And if the expectations are correct, Marcelo will be absent from the clashes of Alaves, Granada, Villarreal and Leganes, where he is expected to be replaced by Frenchman Ferlan Mende, who participated in several key matches this season, to return to face Manchester City in the second leg of the final price of the Champions League at Al Ittihad Stadium On August 7th, the 13-time European Champions lost the first leg in the "Santiago Bernabeu" 1-2.