Dybala expected to miss 3 weeks of action | OneFootball

More than bright lights at San Siro, it was a night of tears for Dybala.

First the missed penalty (his first after 18 against Roma), then the grimace from the hamstring pain, and finally the watery eyes on the bench.

An extraordinary yet fragile champion, forced to once again raise the white flag just as he was regaining consistency and perhaps dreaming of returning to Scaloni’s squad for the November 14th friendly against Angola.

As Il Messaggero reports, medical tests are scheduled for today, but the injury seems almost a foregone conclusion.

Gasperini is worried and hopes his absence will be limited—so to speak—to his matches against Rangers, Udinese, and Cremonese.

The tests will determine his recovery time; however, with a grade-II muscle injury, the likely minimum recovery time is 3 weeks.

Roma needs him, and over the past month, his false nine test has been bearing fruit: two goals between Viktoria Plzen and Sassuolo, plus an assist for Hermoso against Parma.

The weight of the attack will now fall entirely on Dovbyk, who came on late against Milan: just one touch in thirteen minutes plus injury time, too little, in fact very little.

In the Europa League, he’ll start with the goal of finding the back of the net on the road—he’s been missing since March, against Lecce—and of improving a league table that, unlike Serie A, is far from stellar.