Why Vinicius Junior will not play with Sevilla? This said Ancelotti

The discomfort suffered by the Brazilian striker Vinicius in one knee will prevent him from being on Saturday in the game of the 37th and penultimate round of the League against Sevilla, Carlo Ancelotti announced this Friday.

“We have a match against a difficult opponent. We have the casualties of Karim (Benzema), Vinicius and (Marco) Asensio. The rest of the squad is fine”, said the Real Madrid coach at the press conference prior to the match.

Ancelotti insisted that Vinicius’ loss is due to his knee discomfort and not due to an eventual desire to protect him with only two games to go until the end of the season, after the insults received last Sunday in Valencia and the subsequent controversy that came up this week.

“He doesn’t travel because he can’t play, if he had a chance to play, he would travel and try to play,” Ancelotti said before the match in the Andalusian capital.

“The knee continues to bother him. It doesn’t matter if the game is away from home or at home, he can’t play, period, ”insisted the Merengue coach, who no longer had the Brazilian on Wednesday in the victory over Rayo Vallecano.

“Hopefully I can play the last game” on June 4 at the Santiago Bernabéu on the last date of the Spanish championship against Athletic Bilbao, Ancelotti wished.

Without Vinicius, nor Benzema, who is recovering from a cut foot, nor Asensio, Real Madrid faces the match against Sevilla with practically no forwards.

“We are going to take out a team to try to win. Even if we don’t have the most usual forwards in front of us, it will be a very competitive line-up because we have very good players”, said Ancelotti.

The merengue coach, on the other hand, did not want to advance if it could be the opportunity to give minutes to the Belgian Eden Hazard, who has barely played this season.

With information from AFP.