Coutinho Returns to the field for the match between the Barcelona and the Bayern Munich

Finally, the Brazilian midfield player, Philippe Coutinho, has gone back to dress the T-shirt of the Barça after a drop by injury that lasted eight months and half. It carried 258 days without playing and has gone in from the bench like acting. In the minute 66 go in to substitute to Luuk of Jong when the party went 0-2 in favour of the Bayern Munich.

The footballer had minutes in the first day of the phase of groups of the Champions League 2021-22. The past 8 August received the high medical product of the party to define to the winner of the Trophy Joan Gamper and of the presentation of the staff, but was missing him competitive rhythm, more confidence and, finally, his return has been today in front of the team in which militó the ancestor season (2019-20) yielded.

The moment of the injury

Coutinho Remained lesionado the past 30 December 2020 in the party that the Barça had with the Eibar, a party of League in which it began of acting and that finish equalised 1-1. When the ones of Koeman looked for the goal in the extra minutes, the Brazilian threw the hand to the left knee and fell to the lawn.

After this no longer raised . It was his second injury of the past season. Before this, Coutinho suffered a break in the biceps femoral of the left thigh to finals of October of the year happened in the Classical in front of the Real Madrid (1-3) and that took place in the feudo of the Catalan square.

On 31 December the medical services of the club informed that the proofs launched that the midfield player from the Liverpool suffered of "an injury in the external meniscus of the left knee". And on 2 January, after his go through the operating theatre of the doctor Joan Carles Monllau, the directive of the club communicated to the public that would have a drop of three months and that finished lengthening to 8 months and half.

A cyst complicated it everything

The articulation was him inflaming and the period of drop went lengthening increasingly. To finals of the month of March, the footballer visited the Clinical Apetar in Qatar, where diagnosed him a cyst in the external meniscus that caused him constant spill and advised him that him it extirpara.

On 5 April it went back to the operating theatre, but in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, where the doctor Rodrigo Lasmar, doctor of the Brazilian national selection practised him an arthroscopy. Finally, the previous season finished and is today when it goes back to the field as with the Barcelona. For now, his hard agreement until 2023 and, although every year it has been put in the market, Coutinho still has the hope to be able to triumph with the culés.

The party

However, the return of Coutinho to the field with the T-shirt of the Barcelona went extremely agridulce. The Barcelona were totally defeated 0-3 by the Bayern Munich. A first goal of Thomas Muller and a doublet of Lewandowski in the second half sentenced the party.