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Ansu Fati, in the party against the Betis

IN THE LEFT KNEE

DRAMA: FC Barcelona confirms that Ansu Fati has a torn meniscus

Published:7/11/2020 - 20:30h

Updated:8/11/2020 - 08:44h

The victory of the FC Barcelona against the Real Betis earned an important victim: Ansu Fati. The canterano broke the meniscus of the left knee

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The FC Barcelona confirmed by means of an official communiqué that Ansu Fati has broken the internal meniscus of the left knee in the corresponding party to the ninth day of LaLiga Santander against the Real Betis. An entrance by behind Aissa Mandi in the first time caused the injury of the leading youngster culé, that was substituted in the rest and that later made the proofs that determined his injury.

"The proofs made this afternoon have showed that Ansu Fati has a break of the internal meniscus of the left knee. In the next days will determine the treatment to be followed", prayed the official communiqué of the FC Barcelona. Waiting for knowing this treatment and his time of recovery, what is sure is that the injury of the leading youngster is grave.

The played had origin in the miunuto 30 of the party against the Real Betis, when Ansu Fati treated to finish inside the area. The entrance of Aissa Mandi was especially hard -signalled penalti- and in the repetition to slow camera could see a dangerous gesture in the fall of the canterano culé that invited to think that it could have lesionado. However, it withdrew some instants of the terrain of game to go back to go in later.

In the rest, Ronald Koeman gave gone in to Leo Messi to substitute to Ansu Fati although, by his words in press conference, the Dutch technician maybe did not expect the gravity of the injury. "It has had annoyances in the rest and have not wanted to risk. Therefore it has been the change", said the trainer of the FC Barcelona about the Hispanic-bissauguineano.

The time of drop of Ansu Fati

Ansu Fati Had gone in in the list of Luis Enrique for the parties of this month of November that the Spanish selection will have to contest. Of course, the canterano will not be able to attend to the call of the absolute neither neither will be able to play the next parties of the FC Barcelona. In his medical communiqué, the club speaks of "break", by what are in front of an injury that will have of drop quite time to the forward.

In the best of the cases, Ansu Fati will be a month of drop but is very likely that the Barcelona extreme have to go through the operating theatre. It would be here where the turn of the canterano would complicate and could extend his time in the dry dam until the three months if the process of recovery is satisfactory. It would lose big part of LaLiga, although would have options to arrive to time for the eighth of final of the Champions League.

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