Atalanta: Mateo Retegui out of international duty, Nerazzurri tremble

Bergamo, 19 March 2025 – The muscle injury that took the striker away from the Azzurri cause Mateo Retegui It is also a blow for Atalanta, in view of the race for the Champions League and the Scudetto. The Bergamo club is waiting for the player's return to subject him and his medical staff to more in-depth diagnostic tests after the instrumental tests carried out in the Azzurri retreat have highlighted a muscle strain in the right adductor. 

This is the second seasonal problem for the Argentine-born striker who has been a naturalized Italian since 2021: on December 22, during the home match against Empoli, the attacker had stopped for a muscle pain in left thigh, which forced him to stop for three weeks.

An absence that had proved to be very burdensome for the Goddess who, without his gunner, in the following matches against Lazio, Inter (in the Super Cup) and Udinese he had scored only one goal, suffering two draws and one defeat. This explains Retegui's specific weight in Atalanta's game.

Since returning from that muscle problem Retegui has scored 10 goals in just two months, rising to 25 goals this season, including 22 in 27 league games.

The situation in the infirmary

At the moment Atalanta has other Three players sidelined with muscle problems or the Austrian defender Stefan posch, the Ghanaian midfielder Ibrahim Sulemana and the Colombian joker Juan Cuadrado, all probably recoverable for the resumption of the championship, when the Goddess will be on the field of Fiorentina. Away trip to Franchi at this point at risk for Retegui.

Without his number 32 Gasperini he would find himself with only three attackers, however at the moment all away with their respective national teams: the Nigerian Ademola Lookman, the Belgian Charles De Ketelaere and the other Italian Daniel Maldini, never fielded as a starter until now. Also the centre forward of the U23 of Serie C, the 21-year-old Serbian bomber Vanja Vlahovic, is away with the Serbian U21.