Juve training continues, first injury reports crop up

Preseason coaching continues apace at Continassa, as Juventus stay up for their first preseason pleasant on Saturday in opposition to Serie C aspect Cesena. As has been the case for a lot of coaching, the Bianconeri did athletic work, principally with out the ball.

With the return of Massimiliano Allegri comes many issues—and sadly a type of issues will seemingly be muscle accidents. Allegri’s groups have been considerably infamous for nagging muscle accidents through the years, going again to his occasions at AC Milan. On Wednesday, the first injury reports of coaching camp trickled in, with a few gamers lacking attributable to muscle fatigue. These gamers are Marco Da Graca and Paulo Dybala.

Da Graca, 19, is a striker on the U23 crew, taking part in seven occasions in Serie C final yr and scoring one purpose. He additionally made his senior crew debut in Juve’s Coppa Italia quarterfinal victory over SPAL. You could have acknowledged him as the child Federico Chiesa flexed on on the very finish of the sport, taking the ball off his foot whilst he was lining up his personal rebound to maybe rating within the dying minutes earlier than scoring himself.

Dybala, then again, is by far the larger title right here, particularly given the truth that sure parts of the fan base have determined that final yr’s injury-hit marketing campaign has immediately certified him for the title of “fragile,” even though it was the primary time in his profession that he had misplaced a lot of a season to harm, and the compressed nature of each final season and the 2019-20 restart was going to do bizarre issues to loads of gamers from an harm standpoint.

The important thing factor to notice right here is that each gamers are merely listed as coping with “muscle fatigue”—within the left thigh for Dybala and the suitable adductor for Da Graca—which isn’t solely minor but additionally to be anticipated initially of coaching camp as gamers’ our bodies ramp themselves again into the sport form. Each are going to hold out customized coaching applications for just a few days and may miss the pleasant on Saturday, however general this isn’t a factor to be too involved about at this level in coaching.