Overview

• The club said medical tests identified damage to the rectus femoris in Antonio Rüdiger’s left thigh and declined to set a return date.
• Rüdiger, 32, sustained the injury during Real Madrid’s final training session before the away match at Real Sociedad.
• Marca and AS report an expected absence of roughly 10–12 weeks, while Cadena Cope and Fabrizio Romano suggest it could reach three months.
• Such a timeframe would probably sideline him for Germany’s World Cup qualifiers against Luxembourg, Northern Ireland and Slovakia in October and November.
• The setback follows summer surgery for a partial lateral meniscus tear that cost him the Nations League final before his recent return to international duty.