Federico Chiesa (119 Viewers)
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Gutted for us and also for him. He should have been looking to make the next step in his career and have a good world cup but will now need to focus on recovery.
I think it is way too early to write him off. Baggio had a terrible knee injury at the start of his career and was still an explosive player in his early years and won world player of the year.
Ronaldo had some really bad ones at Inter and was still a top player for Real. Even Zaniolo who again had a bad tear still looked explosive and one the right track before his relapse.
Del Piero was definitely a different player post injury and adapted his game superbly. But I think his was a really bad one.
There are worse tears than others and they seem to be dealt with much better than 10/15 years ago.
My biggest worry is him doing it again.
That's better than I would have thought.
I think it is way too early to write him off. Baggio had a terrible knee injury at the start of his career and was still an explosive player in his early years and won world player of the year.
Ronaldo had some really bad ones at Inter and was still a top player for Real. Even Zaniolo who again had a bad tear still looked explosive and one the right track before his relapse.
Del Piero was definitely a different player post injury and adapted his game superbly. But I think his was a really bad one.
There are worse tears than others and they seem to be dealt with much better than 10/15 years ago.
My biggest worry is him doing it again.
That's better than I would have thought.
I'm not a fan of rushing ACL recovery, I'd rather see Chiesa take all the precautions needed and target a return around World Cup, if Italy is even going to qualify for that. 
F.e. look at Zaniolo, he tore ACL against us in January 2020, returned to pitch on July, 6 months after the injury and by September he was out with another tear and this time he sat out the whole 2021/22 season.
F.e. look at Zaniolo, he tore ACL against us in January 2020, returned to pitch on July, 6 months after the injury and by September he was out with another tear and this time he sat out the whole 2021/22 season.
Worst possible news… with the well known physical shape of the rest of our forwards we will be lucky enough if we get to see a Kulusevski - Kean forward line available for majority of the games that are left… Dybala and Morata will as always play a couple then miss a couple thus we will continue to have even less cohesion in our attacking movements…
I really hope at least one of Dybala or Morata manages to somehow stay fit for a longer stretch or otherwise getting to Top4 will become an even more impossible task than it already is with all the other visible shortcomings that this squad has.
if there ever was a time to invest something in the winter mercatto to avoid a total disaster this must probably be it, hopefully someone acts, even if its gonna be just a couple of short term fixes as in loans for a midfielder and/or another forward, we clearly need reinforcements, already been needing it before but even more so now after Chiesa’s season was cut short.
I really hope at least one of Dybala or Morata manages to somehow stay fit for a longer stretch or otherwise getting to Top4 will become an even more impossible task than it already is with all the other visible shortcomings that this squad has.
if there ever was a time to invest something in the winter mercatto to avoid a total disaster this must probably be it, hopefully someone acts, even if its gonna be just a couple of short term fixes as in loans for a midfielder and/or another forward, we clearly need reinforcements, already been needing it before but even more so now after Chiesa’s season was cut short.
