Dani Carvajal will be with his teammates at all times during the return leg of the Champions League quarter-finals between Real Madrid and Arsenal. The team’s second captain, one of the strong men in the white dressing room, wants to be with the team at all times on such an important night.
Carvajal and his serious injury
It has not been an easy year for Dani Carvajal: after the serious injury he suffered against Villarreal back in October, he has had to experience the bitterest side of football, that of having to work hard to recover from a serious injury and not being able to help his team-mates on the pitch. The Leganés footballer suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament, rupture of the external collateral ligament and rupture of the popliteal tendon in his right leg. Despite the harshness of the process, Dani Carvajal has worked very hard during these months to be able to recover as soon as possible, and he can now see the light at the end of the tunnel.
The second captain of Real Madrid, who could become the first if Luka Modric does not finally renew his contract with the team, is expected to be back for the Club World Cup to be held in the United States next June. Times are a little tight, but the medical services of Real Madrid and the footballer himself have shown great progress in the recovery. What does seem clear is that the player could be available for the start of next season’s league.
Carvajal with the squad
This Wednesday Real Madrid play one of the most important matches of the season, in which they have to come back from no less than 3-0 down from the first leg against Arsenal in the Champions League quarter-finals. There have been incredible feats and comebacks at the Santiago Bernabéu in recent years, but this one seems even more difficult than the previous ones, and requires that all members of the squad, and also the fans, be at 100% to achieve what seems impossible.
In this sense, Dani Carvajal has been the first to step forward. The Spanish international has not hesitated to want to be with his teammates given the importance of what the team is playing for tomorrow. His presence, as one of the most important players on the squad and one of the captains, serves to motivate his teammates in view of the importance of the match.
Nobody like Dani Carvajal, a lifelong Madrid fan, to transmit the values of this club to the team and to convey maximum confidence to his teammates in a match that could end up being historic for the team.
It will not be an easy task: as seen in the first leg, Arsenal is a very well-oiled and well-trained team. Arteta has managed to impose a very recognizable style of play, where everyone attacks and everyone defends, with a block that moves seamlessly and at the same pace across the entire field, and that gave a lesson in play in the first leg. Of course, the game was won on set pieces, with great free kick goals, something unheard of in today’s football where goals from set pieces are few and far between. That’s what Real Madrid are clinging to, the fact that, despite everything, the first leg was lost in this way.
Dani Carvajal doesn’t want to miss this appointment. He won’t be able to do it on the pitch at the Santiago Bernabéu, but as Real Madrid captain, he hopes to be able to help the team from the dressing room.