Paulo Dybala will not be on the national team tour: La Joya suffered his fifth muscle injury of the season

The Argentine football team suffered a painful defeat two days before starting preparation for the two friendlies it will play in the next FIFA match: Paolo Dybala he was kicked off the team due to a muscle injury and will miss the matches against El Salvador and Costa Rica. La Joya was preparing to gain minutes as Lionel Messi is also in difficulty.

The news was announced Saturday morning. Argentine Football Federationwho reported through their social media accounts that the man from Córdoba was in pain “small injury to the adductor of the right leg” this would prevent him from joining the group led by Lionel Scaloni.

According to the Italian press, the footballer born 30 years ago in Laguna Larga felt the discomfort on Friday, during the work session that the team Rome he performed at his sports center in Trigoria.

For this reason Dybala, who on Thursday came on as a substitute in his team’s 1-0 loss against Brighton & Hove Albion in the Europa League (in any case, they reached the quarter-finals), it was not possible to complete the procedure and will not be taken into consideration by the team coach, Daniele De Rossifor Sunday’s match against Sassuolo, in Serie A.

This is the fifth muscle injury that the former Instituto, Palermo and Juventus player suffers this season. These ailments prevented him from playing eight games with his team. Despite this, Dybala is one of Roma’s figures in this championship, in which he has scored 14 goals and provided 7 assists.

The loss of the Cordoba player is the second that Scaloni has suffered from the initial list of 26 players that he presented last March 1st for the matches that the national team will play in the United States against El Salvador (Friday 22nd at 9pm). at the Lincoln Stadium Financial Field in Philadelphia) and Costa Rica (Tuesday 26th at 11.30pm at the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles).

The first to be excluded from the list was Marco Senesi. The man from Concord was injured in the first half of the match that his team, Bournemouth, played against Burnley on March 3, valid for the 27th matchday of the Premier League. A few hours later, his club confirmed that the defender had suffered a second-degree tear to the hamstrings in his left leg.

As a result of that desertion, Scaloni summoned the Boca defender Nicola Valentini. This was not the only name he added to his team, as last Tuesday the AFA announced the call-up of world champion Lisandro Martínez.

The Manchester United defender was unable to play even a minute in official matches with the national team in 2023. As if that wasn’t enough, on 4 February he suffered a grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament of his right knee during a match between his team and his. West Ham United for the 23rd matchday of the Premier League.

The English club had communicated in the official press release that recovery would take eight weeks, which is why Scaloni had not included him in the initial roster. The Gualeguay-born player, however, was added at the last minute to work with the group. The goal is to arrive in the best possible conditions at the Copa América which will be played starting from June 20th in the United States.