The Real Madrid player must be out for at least eight months after the serious injury he sustained in Palau on Monday
Real Madrid player Anthony Randolph will have to undergo surgery “in the coming days” for a complete rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, which he sustained Monday night in the first game of the Endesa League final against Barcelona in the Palau. The American power forward must therefore be out between eight and ten months, so he will miss most of the next season.
Sergio Llull was out for eight months after breaking the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a match against Spain in August 2017, while Carlos Alocén has just played four months since he suffered the same injury in his left knee in February. Randolph was injured in the second quarter of Barca-Madrid on Monday when he slipped while chasing Nikola Mirotic, causing his leg to collapse and fracture to his knee.
On December 18, 2020, the Real Madrid player already broke the Achilles tendon of the same left leg in Athens, against Olympiakos, and was absent from the courts for almost a year, returning on December 4. This course he played 24 matches in the Endesa League and 17 in the Euroleague.
Real Madrid already feared a serious injury to Randoph, the victim of an unfortunate, accidental move when he tried to get a ball back from Mirotic. His gestures of pain when bending his knee in an unnatural way predicted a break that was confirmed on Tuesday by the tests he was subjected to, the day before Barça and Madrid meet again this Wednesday in the Palau in the second game of the final of the ACB League.
Randolph’s absence is another blow to Real Madrid, which has been hit hard this season by injuries and the coronavirus, in addition to the mild heart attack suffered by Pablo Laso recently, although the Vitoria coach is already back in training. It will again be his assistant, Chus Mateo, who leads Real Madrid this Wednesday at the Palau, before the best-of-five title battle continues on Friday at the WiZink Center in the capital.
Source: La Verdad
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