Ander Herrera suffers another muscle injury at Boca | OneFootball

What started as a scare during the warm-up before the match against Defensa y Justicia was confirmed in the last few hours as a major headache: Ander Herrera suffered a significant muscle injury in his left hamstring, and Boca will be without him for several weeks. The Basque midfielder has suffered another painful setback at a time when he had been on the rise and gaining prominence.

Tests carried out this Friday, after the rout in Florencio Varela, confirmed a grade 2 tear that will force him to stop just as he was going through his best spell since arriving at the club. The Spanish midfielder had found continuity and had become an important piece in Claudio Úbeda’s system, as a sort of “12th player” (the first substitution), but his rise has once again been halted by a physical issue that has already become a constant.

It is no minor matter. Since joining Boca in 2025, injuries have been a thorn in Herrera’s side, with recurring problems and muscle tears that kept him from maintaining consistency. In fact, this is another relapse in an already lengthy history: in less than a year at La Ribera, it is his sixth muscle problem.

So far in 2026, he had already suffered a grade 1 tear in the rectus femoris of his right thigh, and this new injury has once again sidelined him just when it seemed he had left those issues behind. Since it is a grade 2 injury, he will need at least a month to recover.

The absence gives Úbeda yet another headache, as he had been finding in the Basque midfielder an experienced, orderly, and leadership-filled option in the middle of the pitch. So, just when it seemed Herrera was beginning to establish himself, the story repeats itself: his quality is beyond question, but his physical condition remains the biggest obstacle during his time at Boca.

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