David Alaba, Real Madrid's Austrian defender, misses the rest of the season after confirming the medical tests he underwent at the Santiago Bernabéu, after being injured against Villarreal, suffering a tear in the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee. left.
"After the tests carried out on our player David Alaba, he has been diagnosed with a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The player will undergo surgery in the coming days," states the medical report released by Real Madrid.
The Austrian centre-back had to leave the field of play in the 34th minute of the match between Real Madrid and Villarreal without being able to rest on the grass after a throw in which his leg got caught, an action that caused him to make a bad gesture from his left knee.
Alaba surpassed the Spanish Gerard Moreno in the central circle, also injured in the ankle later like his teammate Álex Baena. Alaba tried to steal the ball from him and put his left leg wrong, with an unusual turn of his left knee after which he remained lying on the grass asking for medical assistance from the first moment.
Aware of the probable severity of the injury, Alaba left the field with a scared face and helped by two members of the medical team to go to the Santiago Bernabéu locker room.
The reaction of his teammates at the moment they saw the action was a clear example of the seriousness of the injury that was perceived after the bad gesture of the joint.
An Alaba who will undergo the first examinations in the next few hours to determine the exact extent of the injury with the medical services of a Real Madrid in which the Belgian Thibaut Courtois and the Brazilian Eder Militao were already injured at the beginning of the season, with both cruciate ligament injuries in the left knee.
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