Real Madrid forward speaks on need for immediate surgery after Elche win

Díaz speaks on want for fast surgical procedure

Actual Madrid performed out a slender 2-1 win away from the Spanish capital earlier right this moment in opposition to Elche CF on the Estadio Manuel Martínez Valero, however the end result was marred by the grim damage suffered by striker Mariano Díaz.

The Premià de Mar-native and Madrid youth academy product earned his first look of the 2021-22 La Liga marketing campaign in place of star striker Karim Benzema with the Frenchman rested by Carlo Ancelotti, however was repaid with a damaged nostril after the previous Dominican Republic worldwide fell to floor earlier than getting kicked within the face whereas down.

Díaz took to his private Instagram account within the wake of the end result to substantiate that he required fast surgical procedure to appropriate the damaged nostril he has sustained.

🇩🇴 Mariano Díaz is making his first La Liga begin of the season deputising for Benzema and at half-time he’s on for a powerful ranking from us.

Díaz has created probably the most possibilities within the recreation (3) to this point, together with the help for Vinícius Júnior. #ElcheRealMadrid pic.twitter.com/9yje6h6NAS

— FotMob (@FotMob) October 30, 2021

He did full all 90-minutes in his lone league look, nonetheless, and even added an help for Vinícius Júnior‘s opening aim on 22-minutes that set Madrid off and working.

Actual Madrid proceed to guide the pack in La Liga

The two-1 win at Elche was not the dominant efficiency that would have been seen beneath different circumstances, however the three-point haul for Carlo Ancelotti’s males was all that was required to maintain Actual Madrid atop the La Liga desk going into subsequent week.

ELCHE, SPAIN – OCTOBER 30: Vinicius Junior of Actual Madrid celebrates after scoring their group’s first aim in the course of the La Liga Santander match between Elche CF and Actual Madrid CF at Estadio Manuel Martinez Valero on October 30, 2021 in Elche, Spain. (Picture by Aitor Alcalde Colomer/Getty Photographs)

With only one loss within the opening eleven fixtures and a league-leading 26-goals, Madrid are in a troublesome combat with surprising early contenders Sevilla and Actual Sociedad because the trio sit on 24-points, simply three forward of high-flying Actual Betis.

Already eight factors forward of their greatest rival in Barcelona – who look set to welcome back Xavi as the managerial replacement for Ronald Koeman – Ancelotti’s outfit are already the heavy favourite to outlast the early pretenders to the La Liga throne and safe their thirty fifth league title.