By Jorge Hernandez
08 Oct 2024, 01:27 AM EDT
Duván Zapata left the field on Saturday crying and on a stretcherafter a shocking and unfortunate play during the match against the Iinter Milan. Because of the way his twisted leg stuck in the grass, it was thought it could be a sprain, as his coach speculated at the end of the game; However, the injury turned out to be much more serious.
After undergoing the relevant medical studies, Torino confirmed this Monday that its captain suffered a tear to the anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus in his left knee. in the aforementioned match, which would end his season.
“The tests that Duván Zapata underwent showed an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, the medial meniscus and the lateral meniscus. Torino affectionately embraces Duván in the hope of seeing him back on the pitch as soon as possible.“Torino reported.
Although the club did not specify an estimated recovery time, it is known that These types of injuries have a long recovery process after undergoing surgery, about 8 months. approximately, so the striker’s season is almost certainly over.
How was Duván Zapata injured?
Zapata left the field in the 84th minute after making a strange turn with his left knee while trying to dribble past Inter defender Matteo Darmian. Assistance came in to treat the Colombian, who was lying on the ground in tears, already aware at that moment of the seriousness of an increasingly common injury in football.
The captain of Inter, the Argentine Lautaro Martínez, toured the field to inquire about the condition of his professional colleague.
Before, in the 36th minute, Zapata was the author of a great goal that made it 2-1, closing the gap on Inter. Fixed in the starting forward of the ‘Toro’, enjoying until now a sort of third youth, he fought with Acerbi from above, made a perfect unmarking in front of the Italian Mateo Darmian and surpassed the Swiss Yann Sommer with the inside of his right boot, putting the ball in the square.
Torino loses its offensive reference and one of its leaders. Frame 12 goals last season and he already had 3 in the present.
*With information from EFE.
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