Absent from the match against Cagliari, midfielder Teun Koopmeiners was unable to take part in the ugly defeat against Stuttgart yesterday due to the slightly displaced fracture of the second front right rib which has been forcing him into the pits for several days. According to the ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’, the Dutch footballer will not even be available for the Italian derby with Thiago Motta hoping to recover him for the next championship match, for the midweek round against Parma
Nico Gonzalez’s stop was even longer: the Argentine has been sidelined since the beginning of October with a low-grade injury to the rectus femoris in his right thigh. He has already missed Cagliari, Lazio and Stuttgart and initially looked like he could recover for Inter. None of this, on the contrary: his absence for the next championship match against Juventus is also practically certain and, in this case, they hope to have him back available for the away match in Udine on 2 November.
Thiago Motta expressed himself last night on the recovery of Teun Koopmeiners after Juventus-Stuttgart 0-1: “When will he return? I don’t know. We can’t talk about missing him after a match like this. We don’t want to make excuses. We faced a team that plays good football and they deserved to win.”
