Correa, out for three weeks after Bellingham's tough entry in the derby

With the time already up, the clock went past 45 in the second half, a ball reaches Ángel Correa, who was running near the Metropolitano benches when Bellingham runs at him like a truck with its studs in front of it.. The Atlético de Madrid substitutes stand up like a spring while Diego Simeone makes obvious gestures of disbelief, expecting, at the very least, a red card for the Englishman.

The play, after the tangana, was resolved by Alberola Rojas with a yellow for the white midfielder. However, the small Argentine soccer player has ended up with a grade I sprain of the medial collateral ligament of the knee.. The estimated time of absence is around three weeks according to club sources.. Ángel Correa will not be able to train with his teammates and will have to do specific work to recover.

“Correa's play, the last one, to me seemed like an expulsion. The Bellingham. It seemed hard to me, with his leg up, Correa hitting the ball. “I thought it was dangerous for Angelito,” Cholo said in Dazn shortly after the crash ended.. The Argentine could not imagine the consequences of the action although, as a footballer, he imagined them.

At the club they are outraged by what they consider a “harsh and very ugly” action that is also carried out with the clash already resolved.. It is the Englishman's own frustration at the first defeat he has suffered as a white player, and also against his eternal rival.. The 3-1 score did not sit well with the midfielder who argued with several red-and-white players during the match, whom he reproached, as revealed by Bein Sports, for the constant loss of time by the colchoneros.

Losses for Pamplona

Correa's loss is added to those of Reinildo, Lemar, Söyüncü, De Paul and Barrios. A new setback for Diego Simeone who faces Osasuna in Pamplona this Thursday and will want to continue with the good feelings that the team left in the second half in Rome and, above all, in the Madrid derby.

Correa is one of the most resistant footballers in the red and white squad. In his nine years as an Atlético de Madrid player, he has only had four absences. The longest one, furthermore, was not derived from a soccer action. At the beginning of the 2020/21 season he suffered from Covid 19 and was out for 15 days.