The Dane suffers a femoral biceps injury: Sunday in Lecce, space for the Azzurrino. Dominguez returns from the 1st minute. Odgaard out for a month, Fabbian is there

After Orsolini and Ferguson, the Odgaard problem also arrives, and now there could be pain up front. The Dane stops and, as suspected when seeing him in pain after that recovery on Zappacosta on Tuesday in Bergamo who was strangled on the run, the diagnosis was anything but soft for Jens. "Second degree lesion to the left biceps femoris, with recovery times of about 4 weeks". Bologna was clear yesterday morning in putting down in black and white the report that formalizes the outcome of the tests that the attacking midfielder of the red and blue team underwent in the last few hours, who will therefore be forced to miss at least the next four games. Starting with Sunday's game in Lecce, then the advance on Valentine's Day Friday at home against Toro, the derby in Parma on the 22nd and the recovery with Milan four days later. Will we see him again on March 2nd against Cagliari? That is the hope, for Bologna and for Vincenzo Italiano, who since yesterday has found himself facing the absence of the player of the moment and the extra man in the rossoblù house, of vital importance in the mister's favorite chessboard, between insertions, conclusions and connection between midfield and attack. Three goals and four assists this season for Odgaard, among the most used in the first half of the season, and therefore even more difficult to replace considering his recent performance.

Fabbian is running for his place in the match at the Via del Mare, fresh from a winning header against Como, where he seemed to be the one of his best times, with Dominguez and Ndoye wide, and the usual ballot between Castro and Dallinga for the central striker slot. In the middle is the omnipresent Freuler, with one of Moro or Pobega next to him, but with a few more doubts for Italiano than a few months ago given the growth of the Croatian midfielder. It is difficult to change anything in the defensive department, where the new entry Calabria is raring to go, having been able to taste the Casteldebole mantle for the first time this week, happily enjoying Castro's center in front of Rui Patricio on the bench and the consequent passage to the cup semifinals of his new team, where he will soon want to be a protagonist too. Meanwhile, the aforementioned long-term patients Ferguson and Orsolini continue with their separate training and are targeting Torino, hoping that comforting news will soon arrive from the infirmary.

Giovanni Poggi