The Argentine soccer team suffered a painful loss two days before starting their preparation for the two friendlies they will play during the next FIFA date: Paulo Dybala was dismissed from the squad due to muscle injury and will miss the matches against El Salvador and Costa Rica. La Joya was preparing to have minutes since Lionel Messi is also in trouble.
The news was announced on Saturday morning. Argentine Football Associationwho reported through their social media accounts that the man from Córdoba was suffering from “a small injury to the adductor of his right leg” that would prevent him from joining the group led by Lionel Scaloni.
According to the Italian press, the footballer born 30 years ago in Laguna Larga felt the discomfort on Friday, during the work session that the team of Roma performed at his training center in Trigoria.
Because of this, Dybala, who on Thursday had been a substitute in the match that his team had lost 1-0 against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Europa League (in any case, they advanced to the quarterfinals), could not complete the practice and will not be taken into account by the team coach, Daniele De Rossifor Sunday’s match against Sassuolo in Serie A.
This is the fifth muscle injury that the former Instituto, Palermo and Juventus player suffers during this season. These ailments prevented him from playing eight games with his team. Despite this, Dybala is one of Rome’s figures in this campaign, in which he scored 14 goals and gave 7 assists.
Paulo Dybala has 38 games with the Argentine national team shirt. Photo: Alejandro Pagni / AFP.
The loss of the Cordoba player is the second that Scaloni has suffered in the initial list of 26 players that he had presented on March 1 for the matches that the national team will play in the United States against El Salvador (on Friday the 22nd at 9 p.m. at the Lincoln Stadium Financial Field in Philadelphia) and Costa Rica (on Tuesday the 26th at 11:30 p.m. at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles).
The first to be excluded from the list was Marcos Senesi. The man from Concord was injured during the first half of the match that his team, Bournemouth, played against Burnley on March 3 for the 27th round of the Premier League. A few hours later, his club confirmed that the defender had suffered a grade two tear in the hamstrings of his left leg.
As a consequence of that desertion, Scaloni called up the Boca defender Nicolas Valentini. That was not the only name that was added to his team, since last Tuesday the AFA announced the summons of world champion Lisandro Martínez.
Lisandro Martínez was called up this week by Lionel Scaloni for the national team’s tour of the United States. Photo: Agustin Marcarian / Reuters.
The Manchester United defender could not play even a minute in official matches with the national team during 2023. To make matters worse, on February 4 he suffered a grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee during a match between his team and West Ham United for the 23rd day of the Premier League.
The English club had communicated in its official statement that recovery would take eight weeks, which is why Scaloni had not included him in the initial roster. However, the player born in Gualeguay was added at the last minute to work with the group. The objective is for him to arrive in the best possible conditions for the Copa América that will be held starting June 20 in the United States.
2024-03-16 14:59:09
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