Frenchman Paul Pogba, midfielder of Juventus and Blues, will be unavailable between two and three weeks after his new injury to the left thigh Sunday night, AFP learned Monday from the Turin club. Examinations conducted Monday morning at the club's medical center "revealed an injury" to the "right femoral muscle of the left thigh," Juve said on its website.
This type of injury usually leads to a recovery time of the order of "15/20 days", told AFP a source within the club. 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, it can perhaps, in theory, be restored for the next meeting of the Blues scheduled, from June 9 (against Gibraltar on the 16th and Greece on the 19th, in qualifying for Euro-2024).
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The 2018 world champion did not enjoy long his first start in more than a year, victim of a new injury and replaced after only 23 minutes of play Sunday night 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, experienced a real ordeal with a right knee injury in July, which required an operation in early September and deprived him of the 2022 World Cup. Unavailable until February, he had to stop again for a month in March after a right thigh injury. He finally found a little regularity from mid-April until this new stoppage. His season has so far consisted of ten appearances, for a maximum of 25 minutes.