There is a muscle injury for Manuel De Luca: he is expected to be out for a month, but the Sampdoria striker wants to speed up his recovery time
The immediate sensations after the replacement of Manuel De Luca have been – unfortunately – confirmed: there is injury. Andrea Pirlo, in the press conference after Sampdoria-Sudtirol, he said he hoped it was nothing serious. And instead there is something: low-grade injury to the biceps femoris of the right thigh.
The estimated time for recovery of DeLuca it would be thirty days, which would mean missing all the last five days of the championship and returning, if everything goes as it did Sampdoria hopes, for the quarter-final of the playoffs scheduled for Friday 17 or Saturday 18 May, based on how the Blucerchiati position themselves in the standings.
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There is, however, hope. According to what Il Secolo XIX reports, there is confidence that DeLuca can anticipate the time of return, to be there between the match with the Reggiana of May 5th and the one with the Catanzaro of May 10th, the last match of the championship. Two decisive matches, the first against a potential direct opponent, although who knows what the standings will be like after three matches.
DeLuca, nine goals in the championship, of which eight in 2024, he wants to get ahead of the curve. He wants to speed up his recovery from his second injury to the same muscle, after the one on August 30th against Venice. Andrea Pirlo waits for him and, in the meantime, thinks about the alternatives.
