Carlos Quintana fractures left ankle in Rosario Central v Gimnasia | OneFootball

Rosario Central beat Gimnasia 3-0 in the Clausura Tournament 2025, but minutes after the match in La Plata, they received bad news: an injury to Carlos Quintana.

The Canalla's defender had to leave the field at the start of the first half, after a heavy collision, and the club reported his condition through a medical report: "Closed luxation fracture of the left ankle. Imaging studies were carried out at the Platense Medical Institute".

"The player will return with the team with his ankle immobilized and will complete further studies in Rosario, in order to schedule his surgical intervention in the coming days", concludes Central's statement.

The play that took Quintana out of the game occurred at the 8th minute, when he was left lying on the ground after a heavy head-on collision with Mateo Seoane. The injury, in the end, turned out to be in the ankle, in the fall after the hit.

Quintana is not only a leader and one of the stars of Holan's team, but his absence adds to that of Juan Giménez, also a defender, who is recovering from a "severe sprain with involvement of the anterior and internal cruciate ligament and meniscus".

The recovery of the 37-year-old, known as Pelado, would take at least 4 months, which means he would miss, at a minimum, the rest of the season.

Accident-prone first half in the Forest

Quintana left the field at the 11th minute, being replaced by Mallo, but Gimnasia also made two changes in the first stage: Renzo Giampaoli gave his place to Conti at the 5th minute and Facundo Di Biasi was replaced by Merlini at the 40th minute.

In the case of the central defender, the injury occurred before the 2nd minute, in the play of Véliz's goal (the former Boca player was marking him), and it would presumably be a knee sprain, according to local reports. And Di Biasi, for his part, had to leave the field with crutches and a splint on his right knee, in his case after a tackle with Ibarra.

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