Villarreal confirmed the injury of Lo Celso, who will not be in the World Cup. Low very sensitive and painful for Argentina.
Young Lo Celso did not play the Qatar World Cup 2022 with the Argentine National Team. While waiting for Villarreal’s medical report, the 26-year-old midfielder has already received the news that he will have to undergo surgery for a muscle injury. The uncertainty had to do with some treatment without going through the operating room that would allow him to reach a hypothetical quarterfinal match.
The Rosario footballer was in the 2018 Russian World Cup, although he was one of the two outfield players who did not play a single minute (the other was Cristian Ansaldi).
Beyond the impact that the confirmation has, this outcome was expected, because the latest statements by coach Lionel Scaloni had hinted that it was practically impossible for the 26-year-old footballer to be part of the final list of summoned.
Last Wednesday, during his time at the Libero vs. of TyC Sports, the coach of the National Team warned that his idea is not to take any player “touched” and who intends that “Whoever gets on the plane is fit to play the first game”on Tuesday, November 22 against Saudi Arabia in Lusail.
At the same time, Scaloni pointed out that the hole that Lo Celso will leave in the Argentine National Team is very difficult to fill. “Numerically there is a replacement, but not football-wise,” projection. Before this panorama, Alexis MacAllister, Enzo Fernández, Alejandro Gómez and Exequiel Palacios options are possible for the ideal eleven.
The revelation in the Argentine National Team about the injury of Giovani Lo Celso
The midfielder confronted the insurer of the Premier League (Tottenham owns his pass, not Villarreal) to avoid the operation, something that ultimately did not happen. What’s more, he was willing to give up two months’ salary in order to be at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
Rosario Central’s message to Lo Celso for his injury
“Because you have plenty of time to continue showing good football, we send you a lot of strength and a speedy recovery”, was the message from the Rosario club for the midfielder, who will miss the 2022 World Cup in Qatar due to a muscle injury. “There is no warrior without wounds!” They sentenced.
When is Giovani Lo Celso operated on for his injury?
The Villarreal midfielder, who will miss the 2022 Qatar World Cup, will undergo surgery for his muscle injury in the coming days: everything indicates that the operation will take place on Thursday, probably in Finland.
The effort that Lo Celso made to reach the 2022 Qatar World Cup
Giovani Lo Celso underwent a special treatment to try to reach the 2022 Qatar World Cup in any way. In fact, it transpired that he dedicated 9 hours to his body to try to exhaust all instances and be available to the Argentine National Team for the World Cup.
The players who could replace Giovani Lo Celso in the Argentine National Team
At the same time, Scaloni pointed out that the hole that Lo Celso will leave in the Argentine National Team is very difficult to fill. “Numerically there is a replacement, but not football-wise”, he highlighted. Before this panorama, Alexis MacAllister, Enzo Fernández, Alejandro Gómez and Exequiel Palacios options are possible for the ideal eleven.
Lo Celso’s curse with the National Team and the World Cups: from not playing in Russia to missing Qatar due to injury
Lo Celso, who will miss the 2022 Qatar World Cup due to injury, He arrived at the previous World Cup at the age of 22 as a footballer for Paris Saint-Germain, which had given him two years of European experience leading up to the World Cup. He did not get to play Qualifying matches, but at the end of 2017 -already with the difficult classification achieved- he got into Sampaoli’s consideration and added his first minutes in the friendlies against Russia and Nigeria, in both as a starter.
He was also a starter in the three tests that the National Team had before the World Cup debut: Italy and Spain in March, and Haiti in La Bombonera at the end of May, before the trip to Russia. In other words, once the ticket to the World Cup was secured, the National Team played five friendlies and Lo Celso started in all of them.. And as if that were not enough, the training sessions prior to the World Cup showed an important participation of the midfielder emerged in Rosario Central, which was listed as the ideal partner of Lionel Messi, neither more nor less than by Sampaoli himself.
But the DT had other plans for the World Cup. Among so many strange decisions of the then coach of the National Team, Lo Celso never played in Russia 2018. Not a minute. He was, along with Ansaldi and Nahuel Guzmán -third goalkeeper- one of the only three players who watched all four games from the bench.
Without Lo Celso, Scaloni’s last doubt for the list of the Argentine World Cup
So far, there are 27 names in the running. So Scaloni will be left with the challenge of deaffecting one more player. Where is the key? In the coach’s decision to bring one more defender or one forward. There, three names appear.
The first is that of Paulo Dybala, who today seems to be a number on despite his injury. Thus, except for a last-minute imponderable, the Jewel will be in Qatar 2022. The other two in conflict are Juan Foyth and Ángel Correa. Thus, everything will depend on whether the coach ends up carrying nine defenders -even despite Foyth’s inactivity after his injury- or one more forward. Obviously, if Dybala doesn’t make it, then both Foyth and Correa could make the final list.
Lo Celso is left without a World Cup
The midfielder will have to undergo surgery and will miss the World Cup. Villarreal’s medical report is awaited, although the player has already been notified.
