Luka Jovic, Milan breathes a sigh of relief

After a starring night in the Coppa Italia return derby, Luka Jovic was ready to have his say in the league as well in Milan’s trip to Venice, but an injury in the warm-up forced Sergio Conceiçao to give up on the Serbian, falling back on starting Tammy Abraham. From Milanello, in any case, come reassuring news about the Serbian’s condition one day away.

Jovic would in fact have been stopped by a lumbago, a problem that will keep him out of action for about a week.

The medical and technical staff of the Rossoneri club will analyze the situation day by day with the utmost caution, so as to have the 1997 class striker available in the May 14 Coppa Italia final against Bologna.

Before Sunday’s stoppage, Jovic had played in five of his previous six games, scoring not only with Inter twice but also in the league against Napoli and Fiorentina, although his goals brought only one point to the Rossoneri. Conceiçao has given him confidence several times, even preferring him to new arrival Santi Gimenez, who scored against the Lagooners but also dropped in the Portuguese coach’s hierarchies.

Luka Jovic has been at AC Milan since the 2023-2024 season: raised in Red Star and considered, in the mid-2010s, one of the best prospects at the international level, he later wore the jerseys of Eintracht Frankfurt and Real Madrid, however, disappointing expectations in the Spanish capital. In 2022, the’landing in Italy, at Fiorentina, before moving to Milan at the close of the 2023 summer market.