Luca Langoni sidelined for the remainder of the season with muscle injury: Boca Juniors faces setbacks in the final stretch

Luca Langoni will be out of Boca Juniors for the remainder of the season (Photo: Baggio Rodrigues/AGIF)

Diego Martínez had to regret some bad news at Boca Juniors training this morning. Two footballers were not able to finish normally the work arranged by the coaching staff at the Ezeiza Premises, one of whom withdrew to undergo medical tests that determined a tear. This is Luca Langoni, who will be absent from the team’s last four presentations this semester. The other, Kevin Zenón, was separated as a precaution.

“Luca Langoni: grade II muscle injury in the medial rectus of the left thigh,” was what the official medical report published in the Boca Juniors accounts stated. The 22-year-old forward who had just started in the victory against Central Córdoba in Santiago del Estero (he played 71 minutes until being replaced by Lucas Janson) is one of the most important cards that the coach has in the offense. Although he gives the impression that the preferred forward is made up of the Uruguayans Edinson Cavani and Miguel Merentiel, Langoni appears as the main alternative.

In fact, the fast attacker has added minutes in 20 of the 23 games that Boca has played so far in 2024, making it clear that he is one of the bets in Martínez’s football project.

Luca Langoni’s official medical report

Injuries have dogged Langoni of late. At the beginning of 2023 he had taken flight at the hands of Hugo Ibarra and it was during the interim of Mariano Herrón that his continuity was cut off by a tear in the rectus femoris of the left thigh, an ailment that led him to be out of the squad for a month and a half. courts. He returned and added minutes in three official matches (Tigre, Arsenal and Colo Colo for the Copa Libertadores), but he suffered and was unemployed for two months. Now with the help of Jorge Almirón, he returned in a duel against Platense in the Bombonera and felt another puncture that forced him to leave the field in tears.

He spent another 60 days rehabilitating from the fibrillar rupture and prepared for the final stretch of the season. He witnessed the defeat against Racing and the goalless draw against Estudiantes (League Cup) and was a replacement piece in the Libertadores final against Fluminense at the Maracaná in Rio de Janeiro. He then concluded his participation in 2023 by entering three more local duels. Now, with continuity, prominence and without injuries, misfortune knocked on his door again, although this tear did not originate in the same affected area as last year.

Fortunately for Martínez, what happened with Zenón was nothing more than a scare. The former Unión de Santa Fe, who had already been put in cotton wool prior to the match against Fortaleza for the Copa Sudamericana in La Bombonera, accuses the wear and tear of the semester. While there is talk of his possible call to the Paris Olympic Games, it is a fact that he will get ready to start again against Talleres, in the first of the four remaining games for Xeneize (this Saturday, from 8 p.m. in the Alberto J. Armando).

It is worth remembering that the squad keeps other footballers in the infirmary: Aaron Anselmino (tear in the left hamstring), Marcos Rojo (tear in the left hamstring), Cristian Lema (tear in the left calf), Cristian Medina (trauma in the intercostal area), Nicolás Figal (tear in left calf) and Javier García (arthroscopy in left knee). To these we must add Lucas Blondel and Exequiel Zeballos, who are going through different stages of their rehabilitation for torn cruciate knee ligaments.

2024-05-22 20:25:00
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