Inter, Thuram and recovery times from the injury: when he returns to the field

Hope is something, if not everything. It can even repair a capricious muscle faster than expected. Ah, how much the mental push matters. If nothing else, Marcus Thuram has set the horizon as a dreamer scrutinizes the full moon: he aims to recover for Saturday 18 October, at the resumption of the championship, and then participate in the Olympic challenge against Roma. At that point they would have passed 18 days by the injury that happened in the second half of Inter -lavia Prague. Considering the “low degree” injury to the left thigh, it would be a prodigious healing.

The plan

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Thuram obviously could not respond to the convocation of France. This is an element that benefits it in the process of disposal of the muscle problem. But Chivu wants to see him calmly next week, after Benghazi’s friendly and after the free weekend he will give to the team. The Inter medical staff will submit it to an instrumental exam in a few days to verify its progress. Only on the basis of the response can a road map be evaluated for the return to the group. It is clear that, in the face of another long series of close matches, risks will not be courses. Thuram will be convened only when it will give physical and athletic guarantees, to avoid the most dangerous of the own goal: the relapse, which could tear the fiber even deeper. So the goal is established. Which can then be done will depend on how Thuram’s robust body will react to therapies, massages and first strokes on the field.

Alternatives

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From Appiano Gentile they explain that there is no hurry. Last year the absence of such an important footballer would sow panic, because the attackers on the bench never worked: the Arnautovic-Taremi-Correa trio seemed conceived specifically to stimulate Simone Inzaghi’s nostalgia towards the owners. Now, however, Chivu is enhancing the two young reservations, Pio Esposito and Bonny, who attenuated the abstinence crisis: Inter, not surprisingly, has won three of the last five games without one between Lautaro and Thuram in the training-based. Transgressive. It is one more reason to handle with caution muscles and samples joints. In other times Lautaro would also play with back pain while Thuram would have made available even without the necessary safety conditions. Now just not.

Naples yes

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In any case, the great fear, the stop of a month that would have forced Marcus to skip the trip to Naples, is vanished. Chivu at the Maradona stadium, Saturday 25, will present himself with the first line. And in the meantime, the carousel of the attackers will revolve, especially in the Champions League commitment against Saint-Gilloise, promoting a soft landing of Thuram: a few minutes between Rome and Brussels, then inside from the beginning in the school game. From each view, the scenario appears reassuring.