Claudio Marchisio was initially reported to be out for 6 months following an injury while on international duty, but he could return by the weekend.
As Juventus enter the final stages of the season, we recap the injury problems facing the Bianconeri in the closing weeks of the 2014/15 campaign.
Claudio Marchisio
Initially reported as a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament by Azzurri doctors, the latest news in Italy suggests Marchisio will return to action far sooner than expected. Despite the national team’s doctors diagnosis, Juventus performed their own MRI scan in Turin on Friday and “excluded tears” to the ligament.
La Stampa and Sky suggested Marchisio would miss 15-20 days of the season, but Gazzetta Dello Sport report this morning that Principino could be back in training for the game against Empoli this weekend.
The midfielder credited his rapid recovery to all the well wishes he received from fans, but perhaps it goes beyond that…
Paul Pogba
The last reports on Pogba ruled him out for at least 50 days following a muscular injury in the Champions League game against Borussia Dortmund. Juventus released an official statement last Thursday confirming the worst:
“Paul Pogba this afternoon underwent an MRI scan after coming off midway through the first half of last night’s Champions League match with Borussia Dortmund in Germany. The scan revealed a grade two myotendinous junction tear of his biceps femoris. He is expected to return to competitive action within the next 50 days.”
Pogba is expected to miss the remainder of the season including both legs of Juve’s Champions League quarter-final games against Monaco.
Andrea Pirlo
Injured in the first-leg of Juve’s last-16 clash against Dortmund, Pirlo has missed almost 4 weeks with a calf injury. Juve were initially optimistic about having the Maestro back in time for the second-leg in Germany, but his recovery took slightly longer than anticipated.
Today’s Gazzetta reports Pirlo will make a return in Juve’s home match against Empoli next weekend, and he will be available for the Coppa Italia and Champions League games against Fiorentina and Monaco.
Martin Caceres
A promising season has effectively come to an end for Juve’s Urugyuan defender. Caceres suffered a fractured ankle in training at the beginning of March and will miss at least 10 weeks of the season as confirmed by Juve’s official website:
The surgical procedure of osteosynthesis was applied to the fracture and the defender was also subjected to arthroscopy on his left ankle, a necessary course of treatment following the twist he suffered yesterday.
In addition, he underwent an arthroscopic capsuloplasty procedure, designed to stabilise his right shoulder.
The operation was successfully performed by Flavio Quaglia and Roberto Ravera at Turin’s Fornaca Clinic. Caceres is expected to make a full return to fitness in approximately 10 weeks’ time.
Kwadwo Asamoah
After undergoing knee surgery in December of 2014, Asamoah was expected to miss at least 4 months of the season. Having returned to individual training in the last few weeks, the Ghanian midfielder could return to team training after the latest international friendly matches (End of March).
Romulo
Having joined the Bianconeri on loan last summer, the Brazilian born midfield managed just 97 minutes all season before undergoing knee surgery at the end of last year. Precious little has been reported about his prospective return to action but there was talk of the player refusing a return to Hellas in favour of fighting for a place at Juventus.
The last we heard was from his agent, Alex Firmino, who spoke to TMW at the beginning of the month.
“I have not spoken to anyone,” he told Tuttomercatoweb.
“I have spoken to [Verona director Sean] Sogliano about other things, but I’ve never held discussions with Juventus.
“We have to wait, and decide his future along with [Fabio] Paratici [Juventus Sporting Director] and [Giuseppe] Marotta [Juventus Director General].
“In the next week we’ll know something. I’ll be in Europe, and probably in Turin.
“I think he’s a little bit short of returning to the pitch, it will take a bit of time, but he really wants it.”
will pogba be able to play if we make the semi finals of the champions league
Maybe. They said 50 days on the 18th of March, the first match of the Semis are on the 5-6th of May. That’s 7 weeks if I’m correct, so 49 days. He should be ready for the second leg if we make it through Monaco.
I’m hoping they exaggerated the 50 days … hopefully, he’s back for the 2nd leg of Monaco.. Lol.
Pogba must be freakin, poor guy .. He must be dying to play. Champions League final 8, the kid is on the brink of super stardom.. It would have been his platform to really shine and show the world what he can do ..
Hopefully we get through Monaco, and he’s ready for the semi’s.
Hopefully.
We should get through if arent complacent… which seems to be a demon ours thats been haunting since our return to success. Aside from our defense, our players have been in fine form. If we go in respecting Monaco, we should be able to take them. Plus the away leg shouldnt be too tough. i read its a three hour drive from italy to france.
They respect Monaco. There’s no doubt about that. They’re a team that knocked out an in form Arsenal.
I also think the last two years of CL experiences will help with being complacent. They were humbled mightily vs. Bayern and embarrassed to the shit last year getting knocked out of the group stages… They now know how hard it is to advance in this thing and not to take anyone lightly.
I also think the Allegri effect on this team is huge when it comes to CL .. I don’t know what it is, he’s more relaxed, more confident. His teams come out imposing their, same as how they do it in Serie A, whereas Conte’s teams seem to be in awe of their opponent and were like a different team to the one that is/was dominating Serie A .. Allegri is good, I hope he can get us to the semi’s. We need this.
I know Allegri wasn’t at Milan for long, but he seems to have brought a bit of that Milan Champions League experience and swagger to Juventus.
Arsenal were all but in form during the first leg though. 2nd leg Arsenal completely outplayed Monaco and i believe they should have made a 3rd goal.
Allegri is more of a Champions League coach than Conte was. Simple as that. More experienced aswell. Milan never did so terrible in the CL, while they could finish 10th in Serie A under him.
Maybe Conte fits best in the PL. Good in a league that actually matters when you win it and terrible in CL.
Conte just lacked experience and i believe, he was traumatized after bayern completely destroyed us, which is why he kept talking about the market.
I hope so. Since this isn’t a too serious injury, I’m more worried about his mental state than his body. He is young, receives the best medical treatment money can buy, he will recover soon.
However, this being his first injury when he has to sit out a few games because of it, I hope he can just shake it off and get back to “I’m going to win the Ballon” type of guy.
I don’t think it will harm him much mentally, he’s too damn confident anyway.
YAY! I found a youtube channel that posts cl games!! Heres our latest match against dortmund:
https://youtu.be/h-6x65R4aNo
Haha nice, i hate how it’s such small screen though, but i guess the thank for watching stuff is to prevent it getting removed. Some time ago i found a livestream of Man Utd vs Tottenham on youtube also with such small screen.
So Tavecchio is proposing a deal to Juve I read: drop the 443mill lawsuit we have running against the FIGC and we could get the two revoked Scudetti back.
I’d go for it. Rather have those titles back officially than continue a pursuit on money we won’t actually get.
What do you guys think?
Did he really propose that? Don’t even think about it, do it.. The titles are more important than the money.
It’s what I see, nothing official but apparently the Scudetti can be discussed. Note: discussed. Though we rightfully deserve that money in damages, I’d settle for the Scudetti, apologies and some form of compensation. Of course some publication to clear our name once and for all is needed too, from the FIGC.
Yeah this would make up for the money for me. Maybe i’m too easy, but the titles are not in our hands right now so can we even be bossy?
Well yes and no. Nothing stops us from continuing the lawsuit, but we don’t have much ground to build that case on. We’re innocent and it’s proven, all that blocks us is that damn statute of limitations
Id take the money. Had a reason for it, but my phonw is being a bitch nd s hard to type right now
xD the money would be good but I doubt FIGC even CAN pay that
Well thwn, rhey owe us a huge i. O. U. RegardlessOf what happens, we ll forever be known as cheats. We deserve compensation. Why should we ettle for whats rigjtfully ours? Thats a joke. We. Suffered for no reason and in return, we get what shouldnt have lost in the first place? That doesmt souns like justice to me
100% agreed but what good would it do to financially ruin FIGC, wouldn’t help anyone. They should find some middle way
Both. Nothing less!
Juve deserves to be compensated and get the titles back. Maybe not the full 443 million but at least 250-ish…
I agree, but they can’t pay that anyway I think. I’d like some form of compensation, but those titles are rightfully ours. Give us the Scudetti back and we might tone down the lawsuit, maybe that should be Agnelli’s answer
Where have youbeen?!
Not as long as he’s being so bossy about that. Change that tone you fucker…
Well this is just the short version in my words :p comes down to that basically
Fine, but still, make them beg.
Agreed but with this statute of limitations BS, we just don’t have any legal ground left to get those Scudetti back. I think only FIGC has a chance of undoing it. In other words, we do need Tavecchio’s aid, so I wouldnt mind lowering the financial recompensation asked.
If I remember correctly, Juve accepted the charges at first, so there wouldn’t be an ongoing case before the 2006 world cup, so Italy can participate. If this is true, and this is the way it works, Juve have done enough ass kissing towards FIGC. It’s their turn this time.
I’m not really clear about the recent legal background. Could the court rule FIGC to give us the titles back?
I think that did happen back in 2006 yeah. We’re already found innocent to the original crimes they accused us of, it’s BS that they let the stature of limitations stand in the way of getting our titles back. I’m not sure who has the power to lift that though.
FIGC should have recompensated us a long time ago already, they should be ashamed of their actions.
But it has to be possible to achieve too, destroying the FIGC doesn’t help us or Serie A much either
Theres a clipof Allegri singing our anthem on instagram. Its the st thing in the world