Boca on alert: Milton Giménez felt pain again, tests before key clash | OneFootball

The forward finished Friday’s training session with pain in his right ankle. Fortunately for Xeneize, he underwent tests that yielded positive results, although he will be put through his paces 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 a problem in his right ankle. Although the subsequent tests showed that he does not have an injury, he will be monitored over the weekend to determine whether he will be able to start in the crucial Copa Libertadores match against Cruzeiro, in which he was 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 main 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 rectus abdominis on the left side).

Calm quickly returned to the club from La Ribera, as he underwent tests right away to check the condition of 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 in Atlanta’s youth academy returned to the pitch with a goal, scoring in four of Xeneize’s last five matches in the 2026 Liga Profesional Apertura Tournament: he scored against Independiente, Defensa y Justicia, and Central Córdoba (SdE) during the regular phase, while in the Playoffs he grabbed a dramatic equalizer against Huracán, a match that would end in a 3-2 defeat and elimination in the round of 16.

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