Real Betis has suffered from new the effects of the dreaded ‘FIFA virus’ in the current league break. If in the previous one it was Lo Celso who was injured with Argentina, returning to the ‘Albiceleste’ after missing six games and reappearing in the second half against Celta, this time the bad news has come from the hand of Johnny Cardoso. The midfielder had to be substituted in the first half of the clash between the United States and Jamaica last Friday and the tests to which he was subjected by the doctors of his team revealed that he suffers uA moderate muscle injury to his left femoral biceps.
This setback has left Manuel Pellegrini with Sergi Altimira as the only specific midfielder of the first team, which will force the Chilean coach to pull from the youth team (Mateo Flores or Dani Pérez) or relocate other professionals (Fornals or Lo Celso himself) while the American is out. But with no time to lose, the green and white team has already Let’s get to work now so that this convalescence period is as short as possible.
To do this, Cardoso has left the concentration of the North American team, which this coming Tuesday will face Jamaica again, and is now in the capital of Seville. As reported At the End of the Palm Tree, Starting this Monday he will begin working on his recovery process with the physiotherapists and recoverers of the first team in the sports city facilities with one goal in mind: to be against FC Barcelona.
He is expected to miss only four games.
It is trusted, therefore, that the loss of the former Internacional player do not last more than three weekssince the clash against the azulgranas is scheduled to be played at the Benito Villamarín on Saturday, December 7. If everything goes as expected, therefore, he will only miss four games, two of them in LaLiga: next Saturday in the visit to Valencia and the home duel against Real Sociedad which will take place on Sunday, December 1.
Furthermore, Pellegrini will not be able to count on the midfielder, one of the team’s most outstanding players in recent games, either. the important European clash against Mlada Boleslavin which the green and white must achieve their first three points away from home, in the Czech Republic, to continue climbing positions in the Conference League. Likewise, taHe will also miss the match in the next round of the Copa del Reywith a rival yet to be determined, scheduled for the first week of December.