Jota Silva’s injury and shows Rafa camouflaged in training.

Besiktas confirmed that Jota Silva has injured the medial collateral ligament in his left knee.

The Portuguese forward had to be substituted at half-time in Istanbul’s home draw against Gaziantep, and the medical report released on Tuesday confirmed the bad news.

Besiktas did not disclose the injury recovery time, which, in the best-case scenario, assuming there is no rupture (in this case, Jota Silva was hit by an opponent), requires a recovery period of at least two weeks.

Rafa Silva, who has been out of competition for over a month, returned to training a few days ago and appeared at the training session covered from head to toe and wearing balaclavas.

Besiktas returns to competition on December 14 against Trabzonspor.