Jérémy Mathieu is discouraged and is not for less. The French suffered an injury in the right soleus on October 25 and will end the year 2016 without playing again when this illness should have only three weeks of low. The defender was injured during the Supercopa de Catalunya against Espanyol and the diagnosis of the club's medical services was that he had suffered a break in the soleus that should have had him for about twenty days in the dry dock. Thus, his return was fixed before the Malaga, the 19 of November. But Mathieu did not play and eleven days later, on November 30, when the absence of the Frenchman was missing much, the club reported that he had suffered a relapse. He did it in these terms: "In the final phase of his recovery the player has had a relapse of the injury in the soleus of the right leg. The approximate downtime will be between 15 and 20 days. " That is, we had to wait until the derby against Espanyol or until the return leg of Cup against Hercules. Finally, Mathieu did not play yesterday and neither will to the Hercules this Wednesday.
A plan this time did not go well
As Mathieu has learned, Mathieu has not suffered a relapse of his sole injury, but has suffered two: the one reported by the club on November 30 and an earlier one that was not reported to the media. Hence now the player is discouraged and neither he nor the doctors nor the physiotherapists want to run more than the account. The key is that, just as other times the sand circuits designed by Juanjo Brau (head of the physiotherapists) have worked to accelerate the recovery of muscle injuries, in the case of Mathieu have been counterproductive. In fact, the player attributes his two relapses to these trainings that did work, for example, with Iniesta and Piqué in his last injuries. Jérémy hopes to play early in 2017.