Alarm at Boca: Milton Giménez has tests after fresh discomfort | OneFootball

The striker finished Friday’s training session with pain in his right ankle. Fortunately for Xeneize, he underwent tests and the results were positive, although he will be monitored over the weekend to assess his condition.

Boca have a new headache as Milton Giménez’s condition has come into question, causing major concern on Friday after he left with discomfort in his right ankle. Although the follow-up tests showed that he does not have an injury, he will be assessed over the weekend to determine whether he can start in the crucial Copa Libertadores match against Cruzeiro, in which he had been expected to be in the lineup as a replacement for the injured Adam Bareiro.

The former Banfield player finished training at Xeneize’s facility in Ezeiza with pain in the joint, raising serious concern among the coaching staff, since he is the leading candidate to fill the vacant spot in the starting eleven due to the absence of the Paraguayan striker, who suffered two muscle tears (in the adductor complex and the left rectus abdominis).

Calm quickly returned to the club from La Ribera, as he promptly underwent tests to check the affected area, and they showed that it is not damaged, although his presence in the match scheduled for Tuesday, May 19 at 9:30 p.m. at La Bombonera will still depend on whether he feels pain in that ankle.

After missing nearly two months of competition following surgery for pubalgia (which prevented him from completing preseason normally and, after seeing no progress with a less invasive treatment, he agreed with the club to undergo surgery), the striker developed through Atlanta’s youth academy returned to the pitch with goals, scoring in four of Xeneize’s last five matches in the 2026 Liga Profesional Torneo Apertura: he scored against Independiente, Defensa y Justicia, and Central Córdoba (SdE) during the regular phase, while in the playoffs he netted the dramatic equalizer against Huracán, a match that ultimately ended in a 3-2 defeat and elimination in the round of 16.

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