Toloi picks up hip injury, São Paulo’s absentee list grows longer | OneFootball

Rafael Toloi has once again joined São Paulo’s long list of absentees. After undergoing imaging tests, the defender was diagnosed with a minor muscle injury in his hip and has already started physiotherapy.

Toloi had to be substituted during the derby against Corinthians due to severe pain in the area. The Majestoso was the defender’s first match since recovering from an injury to the back of his left thigh.

Toloi joins Alisson (suspended), Lucas (pain in the right knee), Calleri (transition after surgery on the left knee), Oscar (vasovagal syncope), André Silva (ligament injuries in the right knee), Luan (injury to the right adductor muscle), Ryan Francisco (ligament injury in the left knee), Dinenno (arthroscopy on the right knee), Wendell (partial rupture of the plantar fascia in the left foot), Marcos Antônio (injury to the back of the left thigh), Enzo Díaz (herniorrhaphy to correct an inguinal hernia on the left side), Arboleda (injury to the back of the left thigh), and Rodriguinho (respiratory condition).

Since being signed in the last transfer window, Rafael Toloi has played only five matches for São Paulo. The defender has struggled to regain his best physical form since leaving Italian football after ten years.

At 35, the defender was brought in to be the main reference in the tricolor defense. However, the long period of inactivity after leaving Italian football (over four months without playing) seems to be having a significant impact on his return to Brazil.

Without Toloi, the tendency is for Ferraresi to start in São Paulo’s defense against Juventude, Sunday, at 4 p.m. (Brasília time), at Vila Belmiro in Santos, for the 35th round of the Campeonato Brasileiro.

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