“Paul Pogba faces possible end to season after new left thigh injury”

Paul Pogba, midfielder for Juventus and the Blues, will be unavailable between two and three weeks after his new left thigh injury on Sunday evening. The examinations carried out on Monday morning at the club’s medical center have “revealed an injury” the level of “rectus femoris muscle of the left thigh“, indicated Juve on its site.

This type of injury usually results in a recovery time of “15/20 days“, a source within the club told AFP. Knowing that the season ends in Italy on June 4, this leaves almost no chance for the 2018 world champion to play again with Juve. on the other hand, in theory, to be restored for the next gathering of the Blues planned for June (against Gibraltar on the 16th then Greece on the 19th, in qualifying for Euro-2024).

The 2018 world champion did not enjoy his first start in more than a year for long, suffering from a new injury and replaced after only 23 minutes of play on Sunday evening against Cremonese. After a strike, he immediately stopped and then left the field, hiding tears under his jersey. Pogba, who returned to Juve last summer after six years at Manchester United, suffered a real ordeal with a right knee injury in July, which required surgery in early September and deprived him of the 2022 World Cup.

Unavailable until February, he again had to stop for a month in March after a right thigh injury. He finally found some consistency from mid-April until this new setback. His season has so far been limited to ten appearances, for a maximum of 25 minutes.

(With AFP)