Alex Meret Returns In Four Weeks

Written Dare Solomon

Napoli goalkeeper Alex Meret sustained a back injury after his appearance for Napoli in the league against Genoa. This was revealed after teaming up with the national team of Italy and yesterday returned to Naples for further treatment.

According to CalcioMercato, the goalkeeper was visited by Prof. Domenico Falco, head of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Pineta Grande Clinic who in his interview on Radio Kiss Kiss revealed Meret and Napoli can relax as the injury has caused no long term damage.

“It is a fracture that leaves no sequelae and there is no need to be frightened, there is complete restitution in the integrum that leaves no aftermath, a tear fracture. The transverse processes are commas that are located posterior to the vertebrae, they cannot cause damage and are fractured only by muscular traction. Probably in the fall in Genoa-Naples where he bent in an unnatural way and suffered these two small fractures.” Prof. Domenico Falco analysed the injury.

Subsequently, the goalkeeper did not feel anything at that time of the incident, Meret who did not also go to the medical staff at the end of the game as he felt comfortable only for the day after when he got the national team feeling pain, and rightly they did the instrumental investigations that the case required.

However, Meret can now begin his countdown after Prof. Domenico Falco gave a recovery date to his injury which he revealed to be 40-45 days.

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“The fractures will heal in four weeks, then there will be a couple of weeks of muscle recovery and it will take 40-45 days to see him again on goal. This type of fracture is never operated on. In some cases, corsets are worn. , but they only serve to avoid pain but they are not needed to heal better because the fracture heals naturally, even without a corset “.

Injury to the 24-year-old has left Luciano Spalletti with David Ospina as the only top choice goalkeeper in the team to prosecute games against Juventus, Udinese, Sampdoria, Cagliari, and possibly Fiorentina in the Serie A

Meanwhile…

Napoli could be without their top striker Victor Osimhen in their Europa league fissure against Leicester City on Thursday, September 16.

The 22-year-old who played in his team’s 2-0 win over Liberia, has his country Nigeria among the ‘red zone’ countries, which means they would have to quarantine on arrival in England.

Osimhen is also likely to be joined by David Ospina and Kalidou Koulibaly in this predicament as the two also have their countries in the ‘red zone’.

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