Although a miracle was needed, official confirmation came this Tuesday and Even the Mexican national team, Argentina’s second rival at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, has lost a fundamental piece. On the same day that Gio Lo Celso was excluded due to injury, the same thing happened with Aztec striker Jesús “Tecatito” Corona, who was unable to recover from a broken ankle.
It was the national team management who confirmed on Tuesday that “Tecatito ” Corona did not recover in time from his injury last August during a training session with Sevilla in Spain. The management had hoped that the player could recover in time for will play the World Cup, which will start with a key match against Poland, on 22 November.
The Argentine coach Gerardo Martino He said the decision was made after consultations with Sevilla’s physical coaches and an interview with Corona himself. “I talked to him, he told me he wasn’t in a position to fight for a place because he wasn’t doing field work, it didn’t make sense to keep putting off a decision that raises a lot of speculation,” Martino told a press conference in Girona, Spain, where they will face Iraq on Wednesday, in the penultimate friendly before Qatar 2022, starting at 17:00 (Argentine time).
The good news for the Mexicans is that other offensive strut Raúl Jiménez, who hasn’t played since August 31 for groin pain, will be in attendance and has already joined the concentration in that Catalonian city.
The Wolverhampton man was a starter in Martino’s first two years in office, but his recent lack of participation and slow recovery from injury have cast doubt on his call-up to the World Cup.
“If he continues with this evolution and has no setbacks, I must say he will be in the World Cup, but I don’t know who (of the other nine) will be excluded”, Martino anticipated.
Rosario’s man openly criticized Sevilla’s behavior, which refused to allow Corona to travel to Mexico to undergo rehabilitation at the High Performance Center as Wolverhampton did with Jiménez.
“He marked a line of respect, for the player’s sake. If anyone understood that we were going to catch a player who was not in a position to play, they were wrong,” he said.
Corona’s defeat is a blow to Mexico, because they are one of their most unbalanced players and a fixture in attack alongside Hirving Lozano and Jiménez himself.
Alexis Vega, of Chivas, is emerging as the player who will take the starting position in attack for Corona.
The “Tecatito” was aiming for his second World Cup, the first as a starter. In Russia 2018 he played a couple of matches coming off the substitutes’ bench.
“Don’t let the ball get to him”
In the last few hours, moreover, other statements by Martino have emerged in which he spoke openly about what will be the duel scheduled for next November 27 against the Argentine national team, for the second date of group C, completed by Poland and Saudi Arabia. Arabia. .
“That the ball does not reach him and that his decisive passes have more run, that they are not so close to our goal. We must try to annoy him as much as possible so that he has the least impact possible, recognizing how difficult this will be, because I guess that for 12, 13, 14 years everyone has thought it and very few have reached it “, commented the ‘Tata’.
Source: Clarin
