A few hours before the match that will mark the season debut in the group stage of Champions League, there is still bad news for theInter on the contagion front.
The swab he underwent Ashley Young in fact, it still gave a positive result. On 11 October, the former Manchester United captain was the sixth player in the Nerazzurri squad to test positive for the Covid-19, after Bastoni, Skriniar, Gagliardini, Nainggolan and Radu.
On Wednesday the swab of the English winger, who had accused a mild cold, has not yet been negativized. One more problem then for Antonio Conte, who hoped to count on Young again for the next championship match against Genoa.
On the contrary, the Salento coach sees his squad diminish further to the external voice in view of a close cycle of commitments between the championship, where Inter already accuses five points of detachment from leaders Milan and fresh from victory in the direct match, and in the Champions League , where Handanovic and his team mates will be expected on Tuesday 27 from the insidious trip to Shakhtar Donetsk for the second day, before the double consecutive engagement with Real Madrid, scheduled for 3 and 25 November.
At the moment only Bastoni and Nainggolan have recovered from Covid-19, after the negative result of two consecutive control swabs, while the outcome of those to whom Radu, Gagliardini and Skriniar have undergone are awaited.
To the external voice, therefore, without counting the adapted Perisic, Conte can currently have only Hakimi, D’Ambrosio, Kolarov and Darmian, but the latter three are also considered by the coach as alternatives to central defense, a department already lacking of Skiniar and that at the moment only counts Bastoni and De Vrij, in addition to Ranocchia.
One more reason for the coach to expect a “gift” during the next one market January, after the disappointments of October due to the non-arrivals of Emerson Palmieri or Marcos Alonso.
OMNISPORT | 21-10-2020 15:26
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