A delayed return, week after weekuntil the break for i World Cup. After the goal in the first league match in Lecce, theInter had to wait over mid-season to review Romelu Lukaku. The Belgian had stopped again at the end of August: he was expected to return after a month, for the match at the Barcelona of early October. Instead, the forward who returned to the Nerazzurri as a prodigal son never set foot on the pitch again for the whole of 2022, at least with the Inter shirt. He came back in Qatar with Belgium, out of condition. Then the return to Milan and a soft, gradual return. In short, the real Lukaku of Inter Simon Inzaghi only had it from April onwards. Without the fans understanding why. At least until today.
In the first episode of the documentary Prime Videos One for Allindeed, Lukaku revealed the real extent of the thigh injury that conditioned his season: “What people don’t know is that I am ruptured tendon of flexor muscles of the thigh, behind the knee, in training before the Cremonese”. A serious injury, therefore, and unprecedented for the attacker: “It was there first time in my life that I have been stopped for 6 months without being able to play – said Lukaku – It made me think a lot: ‘Maybe I should make a longer rehabilitation to be able to play longer’”. The reference is precisely to the run-up made to get to play the World with the Belgium: “I’ve done everything for the national team and it’s an honour. But It made me think what happened to me. It’s my body. Company he had to stop abruptly at 33, I don’t want that to happen to me. I weigh 102 kg and I play sprints, I don’t want to ruin my body,” Lukaku underlined. Which therefore he preferred to dose his return, presenting himself at his best for the last part of the season, which also includes a the final Of Champions.
