Lionel Scaloni does not win out of fear. Good and bad news surround each of the matches in which the footballers chosen to defend Argentina’s national team in the Qatar World Cup star. This Sunday, which came with good news until mid-afternoon, was no exception when the midfielder Young Lo Celso had to ask for a change due to muscle discomfort at the start of his Villarreal match against Athletic Bilbao.
From the images that were seen on official television, Rosario’s man performed a heel with his right leg to assist a teammate and immediately took the back of the right thighwhich generates a more than important concern for 23 days after the first match of the Argentine national team at the World Cup.
Lo Celso lasted a few more minutes on the pitch, but in the 23rd minute of the first half he asked coach Quique Setién to change, who ordered the entry of Manu Trigueros. Rosario is a key piece in the midfield triangle they complete Leandro Paredes Y Rodrigo De Paul.
The former Rosario Central has entered the cottons in recent weeks. With a muscle discomfort he had been excluded from the last phone calls from Villarreal. However, last Thursday he returned to add minutes with Yellow Submarine in the 2-2 win against Hapoel Be’er Sheva for the Conference League. In that game, played last Thursday, Lo Celso had played 20 minutes without showing any traces of the disturbance.
Good news from Dibu Martinez
Goalkeeper Emiliano ‘Dibu’ Martínez revealed on Sunday that his early departure from the Aston Villa match on Saturday due to a severe blow to the head which caused him dizziness was just “a scare”.
“Thank you all for the messages. It was just a scare and I’ll be ready for the next game,” posted the man from Mar del Plata, accompanied by a tender picture with the eldest son Santi, with both thumbs up, in sign of approval.
On Saturday, the goalkeeper of the Argentine national team in view of the Qatar 2022 World Cup had started, as many other times in recent weeks, the alarms in the technical staff led by Lionel Scaloni.
It is that he received a severe blow to the head during Aston Villa’s visit to Newcastle and had to leave the pitch after 17 minutes of the first half. Then his team was beaten 4-0.
It had only been played a quarter of an hour when the Argentine goalkeeper covered a Joelinton shot and scored a rather long rebound. In the rush to catch the ball, his teammate, Tyrone Mings, gave him a knee to the head.
The goalkeeper with a past in Independiente and Arsenal of England received medical attention but was seen very impressed with the shot and even a little dazed. Moments later, Aston Villa manager Aaron Danks, on the advice of the club’s doctors, decided to take Dibu off the pitch.
Musso is back
At the right time, in the right place. For the goalkeeper Juan Musso the panorama has expanded after he returned to compete with Atalanta this Sunday, 42 days after the fracture in the face that had sown uncertainties about his willingness to qualify for Lionel Scaloni, who can now have him as an option for the final list for the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The former Racing Club reappeared in the Bergamo team with a special mask and was able to play the entire game in the 2-0 victory over Empoli, as a guest. At the end of the duel he also made a barbaric reflex save, which could have complicated the outcome of Atalanta, who remained five points behind leaders Napoli.
The one born in San Nicolás had suffered a fracture to his face at the start of the match against Roma on 18 September.
A few days later, the goalkeeper was operated on for reduction and containment with plates and screws for a displaced fracture of the right orbital / maxillary complex, reported at the time by the Italian club.
Source: Clarin
