Stop for Martin Odegaard. Finally integrated into the Real Madrid first team this season after three successive loans to Heerenven, Vitesse Arnhem and Real Sociedad, the young Norwegian attacking midfielder (21) was absent against Cadiz, last weekend, due to pain in the right calf. And unfortunately for him, the last medical examinations were not reassuring.
According to As, Odegaard thus suffers from a tear of the soleus muscle, which should make him miss at least a month of competition.
No first leg of the Champions League for him
The Spanish daily explains that the player is not expected to return to the pitch before the end of the next international break. He will therefore miss – at best – Real’s first three games in the Champions League (Chakhtar, Mönchengladbach, Inter), the Clasico against Barça scheduled for Saturday, plus the matches against Huesca and Valencia in the league.
His injury should also revive the debate around the use of the players in the selection, since Odegaard has played 260 minutes in three games for Norway, in the space of six days … And it is on his return to Spain. that he complained about the calf.
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