Distortion: Deulofeu – Messaggero Veneto Udine also out

In addition to Pereyra, Udinese will not have the Catalan with Atalanta. The right foot is swollen: investigations in the next few hours

UDINE. Here it is the injury that you do not expect and that, depending on the recovery times, still to be determined, risks weighing like a boulder on the choices in attack, where Udinese will not have Gerard Deulofeu for Sunday’s match at Atalanta.

The sentence, the first to arrive pending further investigations, arrived yesterday afternoon when the Catalan presented himself to the medical staff with a swollen right foot, starting an immediate process that led to an initial diagnosis, linked to a sprain. The peculiarity of the case is that Deulofeu was not injured yesterday, but on Wednesday, when at the end of the match he felt a pain that did not prevent him from completing the training session and reaching the locker room with his own legs.

The nasty surprise has in fact manifested itself at home, when the limb is swollen, thus placing a nice question mark both on the diagnosis, waiting to be completed to establish the extent of the trauma, and on the recovery, which right now. it cannot be associated with the trip to Bergamo, but not only.

Too close, in fact, is the challenge with the Goddess, just as close is also the Triveneto derby with Verona scheduled for Wednesday 27 at the Friuli stadium, in the second midweek round of the championship, before the next away match which on Sunday 31 October will bring Udinese to in front of Inter, at the Meazza, in lunch match 12.30.

These are the challenges that at the moment Deulofeu risks skipping, and all this always offering comforting scenarios, and therefore in the absence of any micro fractures, or tendon problems which, if found, would involve much longer times and similar to those already experienced. last year by a player who missed 19 games between a bone edema in his right foot and a meniscus in the knee of the same leg.

Probably more will be known from today, but in the meantime the hope is that the Catalan did not get hurt even on that right ankle hit hard in Marassi before the break, which had involved the change in the 5 ‘of the second half and then a week of personalized work before returning to a group that from Deulofeu has collected 8 appearances out of 8 and two goals in this start of the season.

On Sunday, therefore, Luca Gotti will find himself for the first time to do without the Catalan this season, a novelty to be combined with the absence of the suspended Roberto Pereyra, unexpected events that will induce the Contarina coach to new technical and tactical reflections.