Lucas Moura to have knee surgery in unusual recovery case | OneFootball

Number 7 will have to undergo another procedure due to persistent pain (Photo: Disclosure/SPFC)

MARCIO MONTEIRO

@avantmtricolor

It's hard to find words to define the phase that São Paulo is going through, at least off the field, as the team has been consolidating under the command of Hernán Crespo. This Thursday (28), another terrible news hit the club.

The midfielder Lucas Moura will need to undergo a simple surgical procedure, an arthroscopy due to a partial ligament injury and an injury to the posterior capsule of the experienced player's right knee. The information was confirmed by AVANTE MEU TRICOLOR with the Morumbi club.

Already this Saturday (30), matchday against Cruzeiro for the Brasileirão, Lucas will undergo the arthroscopic procedure at Albert Einstein Hospital. The number 7 has been complaining of pain in certain movements on the field, and has not been able to progress in his recovery after another attempt to return by Tricolor.

Thus, due to the constant discomfort felt by Lucas, São Paulo's Medical Department decided to carry out a new procedure to check for fibrosis in the area or a healing problem, since the corticosteroid-based treatment did not have the expected effect for the athlete.

ATYPICAL INJURY THAT LASTS 5 MONTHS

The Tricolor treats this injury of its main player as atypical. He spent three months away from the fields due to a stretch of the posterior capsule of the right knee, in the classic against Palmeiras, still on March 10, for the semifinal of Paulistão.

In May, he returned to play for 55 minutes in two matches, but he couldn't stand it. Thus, in July, Lucas Moura underwent an infiltration due to constant pain at the injury site. Finally, only in this month of August, the number 7 returned to the games, gaining few minutes against Vitória for the Brasileirão.

Afterwards, he played three more matches, never playing more than 45 minutes, and was again absent against Atlético-MG, in a victory at Morumbi in the last round for the Nacional.

Initially, São Paulo expected to have Lucas 100% for the start of the Libertadores quarterfinals against LDU. With the emergency surgical procedure, the deadline for his return, if all goes well, is now the return match against the Ecuadorians, at Morumbi, at the end of September.

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