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The left-back is the position that has given

Carlo Ancelotti

the

most headaches

during the first weeks of the

Real Madrid

season

. All due to the absence of

Ferland Mendy

, who was injured on

May 5

at

Stamford Bridge

, in the second leg of the

Champions League

semi-finals

. That was

167 days ago

. That is why on Sunday, when he included him in the list of summoned for the match against

Shakhtar

, the Italian, who already wanted him for his

Naples

, breathed a sigh of relief.

The return of the Frenchman will restore coherence to a defense that has undergone too many modifications to try to cover the lane of '3'.

Miguel, Nacho and Alaba

have played on the wing, without regularly convincing any of Ancelotti. "I don't know if Mendy is to start, but he is available. The important thing is that we had problems on the left wing because

we only had Miguel

, who has done well, but he was the only left back and it is much better to have Mendy and Marcelo, "he assessed on Monday in the press room.

While the three raffled off the starting position,

Mendy

worked in

Valdebebas

to return as soon as possible.

His injury, a

tibial periostitis

caused by a blow and which

worsened after forcing in the final stretch of last year

, has caused him several

muscle problems

that have prevented him from being with his teammates since the start of the League.

The pain of the months of April and May made him

change the way he stepped

, both when walking and running, with the muscular consequences that this entails.

After losing the tie against Chelsea, the

player and the medical team decided to stop and rest

, which was the only solution.

A difficult summer

Mendy

missed the

Eurocup

to reach 100% of the new Madrid course, but back in the sports city he found

more problems

added to those of a few months ago.

He had no pain, but he

had lost a lot of muscle mass

and he had to

correct his way of running

and playing, the

supports

, the

footprint

, the

power that he gave to his legs

to perform the basic movements of a football match ... It has caused him several muscle problems,

pain that he did not understand

and some

despair

which, having overcome the last discomfort in the rectum, now seems to have finally left behind.

It is not the first time that Mendy has overcome a strange and complicated injury.

This time it was not something tragic, but for someone who

spent months in a wheelchair at the age of 14

, whose doctors slightly planned the

possibility of amputating his leg

and who had to

learn to walk again in the middle of adolescence

, a muscle injury it might seem like a child's thing.

«I

had arthritis in my hip and I had an infection

So I had to have an operation and I was in the hospital for a long time, in a cast for two or three months.

When I had surgery, the doctor came to see me and told me that football was over for me, he even talked about an amputation.

I was in a wheelchair and had to learn to walk again, "said the Frenchman at the time.

Correct the footprint, a trifle.

At

26 years old

, the

physical is something vital

in his game, that is why Madrid has taken care of every detail of his recovery to the millimeter and has avoided skipping deadlines.

The Frenchman, a

good defender

, was indisputable since his signing in 2019 and can complete a very interesting duo with

Vinicius

on Madrid's left side.

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