“Here we go,” were the only words Sergio Ramos said to the press who were waiting for him by the gate at the Sanitas La Moraleja clinic, where the centre-back went this morning to learn the exact extent of the injury he sustained against Sevilla. His face was not optimistic and neither was the news that he received afterwards.

The Real Madrid defender suffered a hamstring tear in his left leg, and he will be sidelined for six weeks and not three, as predicted after his initial scan.

Ramos withdrew from the Sevilla match in the eighth minute after feeling a pinch in his hamstrings. The first scans detected that he had sustained a muscle injury, which is the second one he has suffered in recent weeks. It must be remembered that he played with a muscle injury in the final of the Club World Cup in December.