Ousmane Dembele he was injured again last Saturday, this time with the French national team, and has said goodbye to the Eurocup
. In fact, from France they speak of two months of absence, something that could affect him in the face of the preseason with the Barça, who will return to work on July 12.
With this new injury, he has already suffered ten Dembele since in the summer of 2017 he signed for the Barça, from Borussia Dortmund. Without exaggeration, the French striker has been out for more time than active as a Barça player. Next, we detail all the injuries that the French forward has suffered since he became a Barça player:
Getafe, the negative turning point
September 16, 2017 was the date his string of injuries began. In a Getafe-Barça match, Dembélé tried to avoid an out of band and the result was disastrous: a ruptured tendon of the biceps femoris in the left thigh. The Finnish specialist Sakari Orava intervened in Helsinki and, finally, on January 4, 2018 he returned to play. It was in a Celta-Barça Cup.
Fibrillar tear in the left thigh
Only 11 days after receiving the medical discharge, Dembele it was breaking again. On January 15, 2018, in a Real Sociedad-Barça, Dembélé was diagnosed with a fibrillar tear in the semitendinosus of the left thigh. He reappeared against Getafe on February 11.
Ankle sprain
Before concluding its first season, Dembele He was injured again, now with a sprained ankle. It was on May 20, in the Barça-Real Sociedad that closed the League, when there was a sprain in the right ankle.
Another sprain that has almost a month KO
Already in 2019, on January 20, Dembele He suffered another sprain, this time to his left ankle. It was during a Barça-Leganés. ‘El mosquito’ was out of action until February 10, when he returned to play against Atlético.
Elongation first, then break
On March 9, 2019, in a Barça-Rayo Vallecano, Dembele There was a small elongation in the hamstring of the left thigh, but the following Wednesday he played and scored against Olympique Lyon in a Champions League match. It took a toll: another muscle tear in the biceps femoris in his left leg. He was not discharged until April 9.
Another injury deprives him of playing the semifinals with Liverpool
Dembele closed last season with another unprecedented injury in Sweep, against Celta, 25 seconds into the game. He damaged the hamstrings in his right leg and that prevented him from playing the second leg of the Champions League on Anfield against Liverpool, where Barça squandered a three-goal lead to lose 4-0 and could not be in the final of the Copa del Rey against Valencia in Seville, in the last game last year.
He started last season with another injury
Dembele was injured in Bilbao, in the first game of the League 2019-20. He was diagnosed with a fibrillar tear in his left leg and a sick leave time of about five weeks. He refused to pass tests the next day and after going on a trip he accused the inconvenience three days later, which made the club and the dressing room feel bad.
From November 27 KO
Dembele it broke again with hardly any time to reappear from its last injury. The Frenchman was diagnosed with a hamstring tear and a 10-week sick leave period. Just when he was close to respawning, after completing a few sessions with his companions, Dembele He had to withdraw from training and it was confirmed that he suffers a “complete rupture of the proximal tendon of the biceps femoris of the right leg”, the same injury as the first one that occurred as a Barça player, but on the other leg and that made him say goodbye to the season having played only 9 games. He underwent surgery and was sick again for several months. He didn’t reappear until Koeman arrived.
In Cádiz, the last
Before your injury with France, Dembele He suffered this last season with Barça an injury against Cádiz at the Tacita de Plata. The Frenchman produced an elongation in the hamstrings of his right leg. An injury less serious than the previous ones, but another one for his resume, which left him 22 days out of combat and made him miss five games.
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