Juventus and, more than anything, the Argentine National Team breathed a sigh of relief this Tuesday after meeting the seriousness of the injury suffered by Ángel Di María yesterday in his debut in the Italian Serie Awith a 3-0 win over Sassuolo.
“Di María completed a series of studies and the results showed a minor strain that will resolve with rest“, reported the Turin club after the exams that Rosario underwent in the morning at the “J Medical” center, owned by Juve.
They will be approximately 10 days of recovery that Di María will have, hero in the Argentine consecration in the Copa América in Brazil 2021 and the resounding incorporation of the Vecchia Signora for this season, after seven years at Paris Saint-Germain.
The 34-year-old left-hander had a great showing at Juventus, opening the scoring with a nice goal in the first half but had to leave the field of play after 66 minutes due to a strong contracture of his left adductor that forced him to request the change and sit on the bench with ice on the affected area.
The Argentinian also provided assistance -for the third goal, at 51, by the nine Serbian Dusan Vlahovic who had scored the second penalty at the end of the first half- and almost scored with his classic shot to the far post of the goalkeeper, facing from the right towards the middle.
The Juventus coach, Massimiliano Allegriadmitted after the match: “Angel’s adductor problem was already there last week. He was having fun and playing well during the match, but maybe I should have replaced it earlier”.
The one who also played against Sassuolo was the youthful Matías Soulé, participant in some of the last calls of Lionel Scaloni to the Selection. The 19-year-old striker played the final 15 minutes in place of American Weston McKennie.
Juventus’ next appointment will be on Monday 22 as a visitor to Sampdoria, while on Saturday the 27th he will host José Mourinho’s Roma with the addition of the return to Turin of his former figure, paulo dybala.
While, On Thursday the 25th the group stage of the Champions League will be drawn. Juve comes from qualifying with just enough to the top European club competition after finishing fourth in the last Serie A, a tournament they have not won for two seasons. Quite a rarity considering that she was previously champion for nine consecutive leagues.