Vinicius, break the warning
Your injury is more serious than expected. Today, MRI: shows tear in right hamstring (4-5 weeks). Safely lose to Getafe, he won’t go with Brazil… and even the derby is in danger.
The tense calm in Valdebebas. Silence, poise and patience. But the feeling around Vinicius was bad. The pain he felt in Balaídos indicated a tear in the hamstring in his right leg . Red alert. It is an issue that the club is calmly handling: the player has had the weekend off and today will be the definitive resonance . In other words, in the next few hours one will know for sure what he has. Why did you wait until today? To alleviate the initial inflammation, something would allow resonance to more accurately detect the depth of the tear . Pain in the back of my right thigh and sure enough,He will not play against Getafe, nor will he rest against Brazil . In short, the problem was clear; Suspicion is average. If confirmed, will be off 4-5 weeks.
These two days have been strange. Vinicius felt something similar to a “puncture”, but slightly lighter during a sprint. Football players, like most elite athletes, know their bodies down to the millimeter and are quick to spot when they’ve suffered something they have to stop immediately, when they can be checked and when ever what they suffer from is just ‘simple’ overload. In this sense, Vinicius is almost an exception, as he has had few muscle injuries during his career so his gauges are still inaccurate. Proof of this is that he spoke to the medical services and while still on the field he told them he was still on .That it doesn’t hurt too much, but there’s something there. And the latter is what leads to the bench making an opposite decision: no risk; If there is something, no matter how small, be cautious and study it. So he was substituted in the 18th minute.
Already in the first half, he made his first discovery – superficially – that brought optimism. It doesn’t seem particularly alarming. But the past 60 hours have changed the euphoria. The inflammation in this area is significant and the pain level has not subsided. There is no resolution yet and the team is holding her back (from Ancelotti to her teammates), but it gives the impression that she could be out for about a month . Exactly how much will be made clear by the magnetic resonance he will be experiencing today, throughout the morning. What is certain at the moment is that he will not be attending this Saturday’s game against Getafe(4:15 p.m., Movistar LaLiga) and he won’t go with Brazil standing still.
Something new for him
He will stay in Madrid , recovering calmly. “ With the break, he will buy time for when we return ,” Ancelotti slipped before the media, without hiding that this pause will come in handy to rest without pressure and thus shorten deadlines. It is an unprecedented situation for him: it is his first muscle injury in more than five years (he arrived in 2018). Since then he has been reminded of a single injury, but a traumatic one: rupture of the ligaments of the tibiofibular joint, against Ajax, in 2019 . “Afterwards, I spent about six months playing with fear. Thinking every time I ran about how to put my foot down and how not to.When it was cold I ached doing nothing. I was going to put on the boot and it was already hurting… all over my head , ”he confessed to El País . But it had been a lonely blot on his resume. The only time she had been seen in the Chamartín infirmary.
Until now. When will he undergo an MRI to find out what he has suffered in Vigo. The one who never bled ‘bled’. Ancelotti himself already tried to find an explanation for the matter: “ We must thank his parents, because he has spectacular genetics; but it is also worth pointing out his professionalism… he is someone who takes great care of himself before and after the games, he is very involved in his work”. This time, he fell. Vinicius has touched the back of the thigh and, although he is not very serious, he is afraid that he is bigger than expected. Quite a bit, in fact.
Danger until the derby
It is practically safe against Real Sociedad and for the premiere in the Champions League . So, as they are thinking, what happens to the zenith is the derby in the Metropolitan (September 23 or 24), to be played just four weeks after Vigo. Very fair, very much. And if something is clear about Madrid, it is that it is not going to take risks. Vinicius will return when the risk of relapse is zero. And he will play when he has filming and high competition. No precipitation. So neither the derby is guaranteed for him, who faces a month of September in the infirmary. Today, at least, he will know exactly what he has and for how much.It is Madrid’s turn to activate Plan B.