Lucas a doubt for Corinthians after knee pain, misses São Paulo training | OneFootball

It’s almost hard to believe. But Lucas Moura has once again felt pain in his recently operated right knee and has become an absence from São Paulo’s training sessions as the team prepares for the upcoming derby against Corinthians.

The absence was confirmed on the morning of this Friday (14), during an open training session at Tricolor’s Barra Funda training center, with the press present but Lucas nowhere to be seen on the field.

The number 7 stayed only inside the training center, in the gym, where he performed muscle strengthening exercises.

The pain isn’t new. In recent days, Lucas had already complained about pain in the area and alerted the always-concerned Tricolor medical department. With still six days to go before the Brasileirão resumes with the away derby against Corinthians, his presence in the upcoming Majestoso is uncertain.

Lucas’s situation is quite worrying. The player underwent arthroscopy on his right knee on August 30 to remove a fibrosis that was causing persistent pain. Afterwards, he played in nine matches for the team, only four of them as a starter.

Coach Crespo himself has already spoken about the situation of his main star, regretting not being able to count on the player at 100% yet.

“Lucas knows he needs to get back to being the Lucas we all know, the one the world knows. We have to pay attention, it’s a tough moment, a short sequence, no time to recover. We’re waiting for the real Lucas, but along the way we hope he scores many goals,” the Argentine coach warned in a press conference.

Besides the more serious case of Oscar, still hospitalized and with a defined diagnosis, São Paulo also reported that left-back Enzo Díaz has also become an absence after undergoing herniorrhaphy last Wednesday night (12) in Argentina to correct a hidden inguinal hernia on his left side, where he had been experiencing pain.

It sounds unbelievable, but the Argentine wingback became the 63rd injury case in the Tricolor squad this season, the seventh who needed some kind of surgical intervention.

On average, São Paulo registered a new injury (or medical issue) every five days this year. If that still seems like little to you, just look at another statistic: mathematically, both Hernán Crespo and his predecessor, Luis Zubeldía, each had seven absences per match this year.

Check out all of São Paulo’s injuries this year below:

Source: Anotações Tricolores

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