Kvaratskhelia, the latest on recovery from injury: there is a certainty

The presence of Kvaratskhelia tomorrow with Udinese remains in strong doubt. So writes today’s edition of Corriere dello Sport on the possible return to the squad for Saturday’s match of the Georgian: “Khvicha is better with low back pain but not yet well, so much so that yesterday he limited himself to another session of therapies and personalized work in the gym, and so he has only the last useful day and the last and decisive test to see if he can at least re-enter the squad list after missing two. The certainty, however, is that he would go to the bench even if he had to grit his teeth: it will be the turn of one of Elmas and Raspadori. Once again.

Kvara improves but the situation does not take off: yesterday’s program, without even a bit of work with the group or on the pitch, sounds like a strong indication of its availability. Let me be clear: some chance of finding him in the list of men called into question by Spalletti for the final leg of a marathon so far superb before the long stop still exists, but the percentages are not high. Especially because Kvaratskhelia has been doing nothing but therapy for ten days to dispose of the attack of acute low back pain accused after Liverpool and a bit of the gym. Yesterday with Sirigu: another man candidate for the forfeit with Udinese. Today, we said, the classic decisive test will be staged. With a starting premise: to see Khvicha at least on the bench, the responses of the audition will have to be very convincing.