Bologna, emergency in defense for Thiago Motta

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Emergency in defense for Thiago Motta

With just a few days to go before the match that will see Bologna take on Monza for the sixth day of Serie A, bad news arrives from the infirmary for Thiago Motta. The former Spezia coach, in fact, will have to do without Stefan Posch, who suffered a first-degree injury to his right hamstring, which will keep him in the pits for at least a month. In addition, John Lucumì whose recovery time is reportedly still uncertain, will not be available for the match at U-Power Stadium.

"This morning, two days before the away match in Monza, the Rossoblù held a tactical training session with a final match. Therapies for Stefan Posch and Jhon Lucumi. Tests to which è Stefan Posch underwent showed a first-degree injury to the right hamstring, with recovery time of about four weeks. Jhon Lucumi will be re-evaluated in the coming days to determine the true extent of the clinical picture and recovery time.

Tomorrow, the eve of Monza-Bologna, the team will undergo a closed-door finishing session. Coach Thiago Motta will be available to journalists in a conference at 2 p.m. at the press room of the technical center Niccolò Galli" this is the report issued by the rossoblù.

Ahead of the match with Monza, in place of the Austrian will be De Silvestri, while the Colombian central will be replaced by Calafiori.

At the end of last season Napoli è boasted the title of champion of Italy, the third in its history. In the previous two years the scudetto had been won by Milanese teams, first Inter and then AC Milan. Before that, for nine seasons in a row, it had gone to Juventus, which was able to win it with first Antonio Conte on the bench (three successes for the Salento native), then Massimiliano Allegri (five) and then Maurizio Sarri, who però was then replaced by Andrea Pirlo. At the beginning of the millennium, before the’exploit of Spalletti’s Napoli, the last two Scudettos had come from teams with non-vertical striped jerseys: Lazio won it in 2000, Roma in 2001.

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