Real Sociedad traveled to Balaídos to face Celta in a duel in which Brais Méndez scored a great goal 10 minutes into the match. Alguacil had presented a lineup in which there were numerous new features, but it was not enough for the light blue team to add. The game was going ahead, but there was some very bad news that left a bad taste in Balaídos’ mouth and it wasn’t his former footballer’s goal. (who even apologized to the stands and refused to celebrate the target). Aihen Muñoz had to leave prematurely of the pitch and the images did not predict the best.
There were only seven minutes left before half-time when the player left with his hands on his head on a stretcher. He had injured his left knee in a fortuitous play. It seemed serious. The player noticed the pain and asked for a change immediately, so Alguacil rushed to bring on Kieran Tierney. Renato Tapia himself, the night’s rival, tried to console the player and his txuri-urdin teammates showed serious and worried faces.. The image was shocking.
Aihen Muñoz has to leave the field on a stretcher.
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The Royal Society issued a first medical report a few minutes later, when they did the first scans. In them they indicated that the player had suffered a twist in his left knee and that in the next few hours he would undergo more medical tests to more accurately clarify the injury and the time he would have to be out.
Many imagined the worst, both Brais Méndez as Imanol Alguacil at the climax of the duel and when they were asked, they said that it looked like a cruciate ligament. “You can imagine… Aihen has already suffered a cruciate injury in that knee, It looks like it’s the same injury to the same knee again, we’re going to wait but these players who have already suffered this type of injury quickly know when they break it again. We fear that he is a crusader. One more adversity, and this victory is evidently for Aihen because this is the bad thing about football. “If it happens to us, it’s because we’re there and that’s what it takes to play to the limit,” the coach told Movistar+.
This same Sunday afternoon, January 21, 2024, Real Sociedad has announced the worst news for the young footballer Aihen Muñoz: “In the tests carried out, a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament was observed,” it can be read. “The surgical intervention will take place in the coming days,” he adds. A very hard injury, which had always hit female soccer players harder, but this season many cases have proliferated in men’s soccer. Without going any further, at Real Madrid there are three who suffer from it: Courtois, Eder Militao and David Alaba.
Complete statement from the Royal Society about Aihen Muñoz
Aihen Muñoz suffered a twist in his left knee during the RC Celta de Vigo-Real Sociedad match. In the tests carried out, a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament was observed. The surgical intervention will take place in the coming days.
The information that is going to be published has the consent of the player.