Atalanta, Retegui suffers a muscle injury: out for two weeks

Injury not serious but more complicated than expected, not a simple resentment. Recovery for next Sunday's trip to Florence is difficult

di FABRIZIO CARCANO
20 March 2025
Mateo Retegui with the blue shirt

Mateo Retegui with the blue shirt

First degree injury of the adductor muscle long right leg. This is the diagnosis for Mateo Retegui, returned to Bergamo yesterday after leaving the retreat of the Italian national team, forced to miss the Nations League double-header against Germany, and subjected this morning to a series of diagnostic tests in depth.

Which have highlighted a first degree muscle injury and not a simple resentment as was hypothesized yesterday in the heat of the moment. Recovery times are not very long, estimated at aroundand two weeks, but the '99 class striker will be evaluated day by day by the medical staff and it cannot be ruled out that he could recover in extremis for next Sunday's match on the pitch of Fiorentina. It is unlikely that he will succeed in the away match at Franchi, more likely Retegui, top scorer in Serie A with 22 goals in 27 games, will then return on 6th April in the home match against Lazio.

No news from the other injured either: Stefan Posch, Ibrahim Sulemana and Juan Cuadrado They also underwent therapy today after their respective similar muscular injuries and they too remain doubtful for the match on March 30 in Florence.

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