Serie A: Juventus forward Paulo Dybala expected to be out for 20 days after picking up knee ligament injury

File picture of Paulo Dybala. AP

Rome: Paulo Dybala has been dominated out for as much as 20 days after struggling a knee ligament harm throughout Juventus’ weekend win over Sassuolo, the Italian champions revealed on Monday.

In an announcement, Juventus stated that Argentina ahead Dybala had undergone examinations on the membership’s medical centre which revealed an harm to “the medial collateral ligament of the left knee with restoration occasions of roughly 15/20 days”.

Dybala was substituted three minutes earlier than the break within the 3-1 win in Turin which retains Juve within the hunt for tenth straight Serie A title.

The 27-year-old has scored simply two league objectives in a rocky season beneath new coach Andrea Pirlo which has additionally featured a spat with the membership over a contract extension.

He’ll now miss Juve’s conflict with title rivals Inter Milan this weekend, with the Turin membership seven factors behind present league leaders AC Milan.

Juve added that Weston McKennie, who pulled up after 18 minutes on the Allianz Stadium and was changed by Aaron Ramsey, was being monitored however that exams discovered no accidents to the American midfielder.

Federico Chiesa has additionally prevented a spell on the sidelines regardless of being on the receiving finish of a tough Pedro Obiang deal with which led to the Sassuolo midfielder being despatched off simply earlier than the top of the primary half.

Juve are at present additionally with out Alex Sandro, Juan Cuadrado and Matthijs de Ligt, who’ve all examined optimistic for coronavirus .