OFFICIALLY OFFICIAL: Timothy Weah set to miss time with hamstring injury
Today at 09:15 PM
Just another one to add to the list it seems.
For as nice as it was to see Juventus' up-and-down attack to erupt for four goals in Tuesday night's victory over Cagliari in the Coppa Italia Round of 16, there was one less-than encouraging sign as the final whistle sounded at the Allianz Stadium.
It was the sight of Juve winger Timothy Weah holding his hamstring as the players walked onto the field to shake hands with one another. Some of his Juventus teammates walked over and consoled the American speedster, with very obvious concern about what was going on.
Now we know why.
Juventus announced Wednesday that Weah, who was a second-half substitute in the win over Cagliari, had suffered "a low-grade injury" to his hamstring in his right leg. It comes at a time where Juve are trying to deal with injuries up and down the roster, something that has certainly played its part in recent results that include four straight draws in Serie A. But for the last couple of games, Juve's attack has had pretty much all options not named Arek Milik available, with Nico Gonzalez being the most recent player to come back from injury.
But now, Weah's back on the injury list having already dealt with a hamstring issue once this season.
The short update on Weah's visit to J Medical is as follows:
Following the muscular problem suffered on Tuesday night in the Coppa Italia match against Cagliari, Timothy Weah underwent clinical and instrumental examinations this morning at J|Medical, which revealed a low-grade injury of the femoral biceps of the right thigh.
As you can see, there is no timetable for Weah's return. He didn't even get the "his condition will be evaluated on a day-to-day basis" like we've seen with many of the injuries that don't involve ACLs being torn so far this season. So that might mean that it will be a few weeks before we see Weah on the field again.
It could be a couple of weeks, or as we saw with Gonzalez, much longer than that. At this point, hopefully the fact that it is described as a "low-grade injury" means that it is just that and the recovery time is not as long as some of the other injuries that Thiago Motta has had to deal with so far this season.
