Willian to miss four to six weeks as Grêmio address chronic hamstring tendon pain | OneFootball

Grêmio will be without midfielder Willian for four to six weeks as he treats a chronic issue in the tendon of his right hamstring.

He and the club’s medical staff agreed a break from training and matches for treatment. According to Globo.com, the plan is likely to include a stem-cell application, a method the club have used in some muscular cases.

He has tendinopathy in the posterior muscle of the right thigh. Since the start of the season he managed the pain to stay on the pitch, treating it day to day and playing. Any relief was brief, then the pain returned.

Lately he felt it worsen, limiting movements, especially in sprints. He felt the muscle could go when accelerating at speed.

The choice is to lose him now rather than have him half fit for the rest of the year. Both the earlier decision to play through and the current pause were taken with the club’s doctors.

He missed the match against Palmeiras on Thursday after discomfort in training. Coach Luís Castro said Willian had carried issues this season and showed them intermittently.

Grêmio also ruled Noriega out of Sunday’s match against Remo, and there will be no returns yet for Balbuena or André Henrique.

Willian took the number 10 shirt this year and has 16 appearances, mostly off the bench in second halves, with two assists.

Source: Globo.com