The blue and Paris Saint-Germain midfielder, Marco Verratti, is injured again: victim of a blow to the hip remedied Sunday in the "derby" of France with Olympique Marseille, he will be absent at least 4 weeks according to what is learned from PSG.
Verratti, who had been substituted at the end of the first half, will lose the two decisive matches of Roberto Mancini's national team against Switzerland and Northern Ireland, preliminaries for the 2022 World Cup. With PSG he should be absent in the return match with Manchester City, in the Champions League on 24 November.
The diagnosis of PSG doctors speaks of "deep injury of the oblique muscles in the left hip".