OFFICIAL: Barça confirms Araújo's ankle sprain, but not its severity

Ronald Araújo had to be substituted against the Real Betis by fault of an injury in the ankle. The charrúa tripped and did a lot damage in this zone in the minute 8 of party. At the end, after receiving medical attention, the defender had to leave of the party in the 11 and Frenkie of Jong went in in his place. To the Uruguayan saw him go with visible samples of pain and left tremendously concerned to all the world.

Luckily, at the end of the meeting some journalists informed that the one of Rivera only had a sprain and that even could play against Paris Saint-Germain the gone of eighth of Champions League. This Monday had to him do the proofs that diagnosed the scope of his injury, but the forecasts were positive. Unfortunately, this seems to not to have fulfilled and the ailment of the central could be worse of the expected.

As it has ensured the program of radius of the 'Chain BE', 'Què t'hi Jugues', Araújo already has happened the first medical reviews and in the club there is some pessimism by the results, since it could have affected some zone more than the ankle. The Barça has taken out the classical medical communiqué after the proofs and has confirmed that has a sprain of ankle. Nevertheless, it has not said at all on the gravity of the same, by what the information of the 'BE' could confirm of a moment to another.

"The proofs made this morning have confirmed that has a sprain in the left ankle. The evolution will mark his availability", says the writing of the Barcelona. A brief communiqué in which it does not say at all that it did not know already. By all this, it will be necessary to expect to see if the injury of the charrúa is of long length or no. If it went it, the defender could be of drop around a month, or even more if the others affectations are grave.

To confirm this, will be impossible that contest the gone of League of Champions against the PSG of 16 February, and even could lose the turn, that is on 10 March. This would be a total misfortune for the culés, since Araújo has been an indispensable piece for Ronald Koeman these last months and is in a state of form sensacional. His speed to go to the crossing, his capacity to correct played, his aerial game and his leadership will be almost impossible to substitute with what there is right now available.

I hammered, the big hope of the Barça if Araújo

The only hope of the Catalans if all this sucede would be that Gerard Hammered recortara terms and returned what before. The Catalan already is in the final stretch of his recovery, but seems that it still has at least for a pair of weeks more. Therefore, it would not arrive for the gone in front of the PSG, in which at the side of Clément Lenglet would have to play Of Jong, Óscar Mingueza or Samuel Umtiti, the big alternative that has right now the Dutch trainer.