The spare went to surgery. The ban didn’t move.
Asencio under the knife for a right-tibia stress fracture. Huijsen’s Villarreal ban — and the corridor that needed a spare — did not clear.
English desks will file “Asencio out for surgery.” The prior graphs already named the hole for 10 October: one ban (Huijsen), one race (Militão into group continuous running), Konaté and Valverde still on club partes. Asencio was the soft cover in that same corridor — the break had been framed as his shot at Villarreal minutes with Huijsen deleted. Today’s club parte closes that lane.
Real Madrid medical report, 30 September: “Our player Raúl Asencio will undergo surgery tomorrow to treat a stress fracture in the tibia of his right leg.”
What did not move: Huijsen’s one-match Comité ban still owns Villarreal at the Bernabéu on 10 October. The spare who might have covered it is locked to an operating table. Surgery is a hard delete of the cover. The ban and the open partes that emptied the corridor have not cleared.
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— Jet Callen / THE GRAPHS
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