Mendy and Marcelo, casualties against Sevilla

Ferland Mendy, this Tuesday Timo Werner and Kai Havertz at Real Madrid-Chelsea. Sergio Perez (EFE)

The agonizing comeback against Chelsea claimed two pieces in the Madrid dressing room: Mendy, who will be out for two weeks due to a right groin injury, and Marcelo, out of circulation for a week due to left groin problems.

Two falls that for this Sunday against Sevilla (9:00 p.m., Movistar LaLiga) leave Carlo Ancelotti without the two most common left-backs in the first team, which will force him to replace Nacho or Alaba in that position.

Whoever does not do so would occupy the central position along with Militão.

The last time he was seen in this situation, in the second leg against PSG, the starting choice was Nacho.

Above all, the situation of the 26-year-old Frenchman is worrying because the estimated recovery periods would make him reach the first leg of the Champions League semifinals against Manchester City on April 26 at the Etihad Stadium.

The ex-Lyon player has accumulated several physical problems in recent times that have him on an almost constant trip back and forth to the infirmary: he traveled just for the first leg of the quarterfinals in London, he was not in the classic and, last weekend, week, he rested against Getafe due to an overload.

Now, another two weeks of hiatus.

He already missed the end of last season and the beginning of this one due to a serious injury, shin splints, which kept him off the pitch for six months, from April to October.

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Without the Frenchman or the Brazilian, and with Alaba and Nacho preferentially anchored in the center of the rear, another option was that of the youth squad Miguel Gutiérrez, now ruled out because he underwent surgery 15 days ago on the meniscus in his left knee.

This path, in fact, has long ceased to be considered for Ancelotti.

After being a starter in the last three games of the last League with Zidane, the Italian coach gave him a reel in four duels at the beginning of the course;

however, he soon returned to Castilla.

The return of Mendy's injury and the bet on Marcelo as a substitute winger in his last year of contract left him without options.

In addition to this open problem on the left flank of the defence, this Holy Thursday, Courtois and Carvajal did not exercise inside the Valdebebas facilities, although, in principle, according to club sources, they should have no problem being at Pizjuán .

Ceballos, for his part, is awaiting the result of a PCR.

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