Alexia Putellas is medically cleared and will be available against Chelsea

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2023-04-26 15:53:57

The Barça player Alexia Putellas has received medical discharge this Wednesday, April 26 after nearly 10 months out of action due to a left knee cruciate ligament injury that occurred on July 5, 2022.

“Alexia Putellas has been medically discharged”. This is the short statement with which Barça has confirmed the return of its captainan Alexia who from last summer until now has focused on the long recovery of her knee.

Last March, the Catalan twice winner of ‘The Best’ by FIFA as the best player in the world, she started working with the group on a partial basis, thus burning the penultimate stage of her recovery,

The captain began a new phase that gave rise, in the last days, to a final stage in which she trained normally with her teammates.

Alexia tore the cruciate ligaments in her left knee on July 5, 2022, in a concentration with the Spanish team. On the 12th of the same month, the operation was successful.

Now Mollet’s could return with the team this Thursday against Chelseain the second leg of the Champions League semi-finals, despite the fact that his coach, Jonathan Giraldezhe assured in the preview that he would not take the slightest risk with her.

The truth is that, with the medical discharge, Alexia returns to the team in the final stretch of the seasonwith this Champions at stake and with League F ready for the Blaugrana team, which get your captain back and considered the best player of the moment.

90 minutes from the Champions League final

Jonatan Giráldez’s team faces tomorrow Thursday at 18.45 h la second leg of the semi-finals of the Champions League against him Chelsea at the Spotify Camp Nou. The Blaugrana leave with the advantage obtained last Saturday at Stanford Bridge, when they won thanks to a goal from Caroline Hansen.

Apart from the novelty of Putellas, the call also includes the novelties of Vicky Lopez i Maria Perez of the subsidiary, but the team will not be able to count on Lucy Bronze. The Englishwoman had to be substituted in London with a knee injury and has undergone arthroscopy on her right knee, the club said this morning, without specifying the length of time she would be out.

The club expects a large influx of people in the field, which already has more than 65,000 tickets sold.


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