Very bad news for Samuel Umtiti who injured his right shoulder this Saturday with his club Lecce. He left with tears in his eyes
The physique of Samuel Umtiti was sadly reminded of him this Saturday. While his Lecce team was moving on the field of Hellas Verone, the tricolor defender suffered a shock to the right shoulder, in an aerial duel with Milan Djuric. Stayed on the ground for a long time, the Frenchman was forced to leave his partners. Supported by two healers, Samuel Umtiti therefore painfully joined the edge of the field in tears. While he had managed to chain five games in a row as a holder (including the last this Saturday), the world champion finds himself stopped in his tracks.
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And the news might not be very good. As specified RMC, the coach of Lecce, Marco Baroni, refused to advance on the subject. ” We will see. It is too early to assess this situation. “And the strategist to speak of”frozen shoulder at the time of Umtiti’s exit. It will therefore be necessary to wait for the next few days to be fixed on the seriousness of the injury of the 2018 world champion.
Expected diagnosis
Unless a diagnosis is more optimistic than expected, Lecce will have to do without the services and experience of the former Barça. Beaten this Saturday against Verona (2-0), the Umtiti club occupies a provisional fourteenth place in the Serie A standings with six points ahead of the red zone.
