Calafiori left the Italian team and was at risk of having it at Arsenal-Real Madrid

The first sensations were not positive and now they have been confirmed. Riccardo Calafiori It will not end on Thursday the Italy-Alemany, a quarterfinal game of the Nations League, after making a bad gesture with a knee and will be inferior to the return meeting that will be held on Sunday at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund.

Calafiori He now left the concentration of the Italian team and returned to Arsenal to undergo more evidence that determines the exact scope of his injury. Mikel Arteta He could lose the central for the next matches and his presence in the first leg of the Champions League against Real Madrid, on April 8 at the Emirates Stadium, at least in doubt. This is a reduction of ‘gunners’, which can no longer have Gabriel Jesus and Kai Havertz, while Bukayo then He will try to heal in time from his muscle injury that led him to the operating room in January.

Calafiori He had to leave the San Siro set at the added time ever since, in an attempt to correct his position to fight a divided ball, he slipped and fell on the grass putting the left knee in an unnatural position. It was the same articulation that was seriously injured seven years ago, when I was 16, in a match with the Youth League in Romans.

“Riccardo Calafiori, who underwent trials this morning by sprain-continuion on the left knee suffered during the fight against Germany, was declared unavailable for the second leg scheduled for the week and returning to his club,” the Italian football federation (FIGC) said in a statement.

Two to three weeks

According to Italy’s pressCalafiori may affect the collateral ligament, An injury to the degree of one or two that will keep him from two to three weeks, so he can get right at Arsenal-Real Madrid.

Calafiori, who joined Arsenal from Bologna in July, suffered a lot of injuries this season, along with a similar knee, who forced him to miss the nine Premier League games.