Argentine defender Gonzalo Piovi continues to recover from the dislocation of his right clavicle that he suffered in the duel vs. Toluca, of date 17 of the Clausura 2024 tournament and thus be taken into account for this Thursday’s match against the UNAM Pumas at the start of the quarterfinals between both teams.
As recalled, Piovi was injured in a fortuitous collision with the Chilean defender of the Red Devils, Jean Meneses., where the Argentine defender of the Machine came out with the worst part by suffering this injury that At first it was misdiagnosed when it was stated that it was a fracture in that area of the right shoulder.but later the medical service of the light blue squad had to clarify that only a dislocation had occurred and that with ten days of work it could be ready.
Time has passed and Piovi’s progress has been notablefor which the defender, with 17 games as a starter in the starting eleven of the Celeste Machine, could at least go to the bench for the duel that will be played in Ciudad Universitaria this Thursday.
Piovi throughout the championship He closed all the mouths that questioned his arrival in Mexican soccer and the preference of the Argentine coach Martín Anselmi instead of the former captain of the cement workers, the Paraguayan Juan Escobar.
The Argentine defender did not need excuses for coupling and saved a play in the first game against Pachuca, where he made a mistake in one of the Tuzo team’s goalshis performance went from less to more until he became one of the bastions of the Cruzazulinos’ lower team, making an important area with the Colombian Willer Ditta and the Mexican Carlos Salcedo.
In the next few hours the Cruz Azul medical service will perform a test to determine if the recovery has been complete to at least take him to the bench in this important match or otherwise wait until Sunday to send him back to activity from the start of the game.
Sources close to Piovi, They assure that the Argentine feels confident that he will be able to play from this Thursday and thus be able to be part of the starting eleven of the Cement Machine from the first leg between both adversaries who have a lot of history in these instances within the MX League.
So we’ll see which leather comes out with more belts in this duel, whose history in finals dates back to the 1978-79 season, when Cruz Azul won the grand final at the Azteca Stadium 2-0 with goals from Carlos Jara Saguier and Adrián Camacho.
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