Modric, out for 3-4 months, could miss up to 20 matchesThe scan carried out by Real Madrid’s club doctors have shown that he suffered a tear of the left proximal rectus femoris tendon. 
Luka Modric will be out of action for between three and four months after sustaining an injury during Croatia’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Italy. According to Real Madrid’s club doctors, the midfielder suffered a tear of the left proximal rectus femoris tendon.
That means he is set to
miss between 12 and 16 weeks of first-team action and will not return to play, in all likelihood, until February 2015, according to several sources close to Real Madrid.
The player landed at Madrid-Barajas airport in mid-afternoon on Monday.
From there he went to the Sanitas La Moraleja clinic to be examined by the Real Madrid doctors and he had an MRI scan on his left thigh.
“I felt a very strong pain in the upper part of my thigh. It still hurts. It is a shame, but football is like that,”
he said with a resigned tone before knowing the final diagnosis, which was very similar to the one that was put forward at first by the Croatian national team doctor Boris Neme.
Luka Modric had to come off in the 26th minute of Croatia’s draw in Italy.
He will miss the Club World Cup. Real Madrid will play their first match of that tournament on December 16 against the winners of the preceding match between Crul Azul and Western Sydney Warriors. And that’s not the worst of it.
The former Tottenham man could miss up to 20 Real Madrid matches. Right now, in 2014, he will not be available to play against Eibar, Málaga, Celta, Almería and Sevilla in La Liga,
against Basel and Ludogorets in the Champions League, and against Cornellá in the Copa del Rey.
Then, with the New Year, he could be absent for up to eight La Liga matches, the last 16 of the Champions League (which could be against Atlético) and possibly the quarter-finals too. The Champions League will resume, after the end of the group stage, in the middle of February, and that is when Modric may be available again.
His absence will open up first-team opportunities for Khedira and Illarramendi. Ancelotti could also play Isco in a deeper role, as he hinted in a press conference last week.
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