Serious Injury Woes for Torino, Roma (And Chievo)
By: Martha | October 3rd, 2007
There’s terrible news for Roma this morning: Alberto Aquilani is expected to be out for two months with a partially torn quadriceps muscle. Having just recovered from an injury in order to be fit for the Man U match, he was stretched off the pitch yesterday in what appeared to be terrible pain, after “feeling” his quad snap. Ouch. The tears the poor lad shed on his way off the field may also have come as much from fear of the diagnosis as from pain — Aquilani missed a chunk of last season with a thigh problem, and it must be beyond frustrating to hear that he’s going to go through the same thing again now, particularly in light of how important he’s become to Roma, and how many injuries they’re already carrying.
Further down the table, Torino today received the absolutely disastrous news that midfielder Simone Barone will be out for two months due to damaged ligaments in his knee. Man alive — the downhill slide for Toro is really picking up speed, huh? Those early draws were so encouraging, but now they’ve suddenly lost two in a row, refused to accept their derby loss with dignity and just move on (My beloved Eugenio Corini continued the bitching in his press conference yesterday.), and gotten increasingly hostile in negotiations with their best player (who, by the way, is sort of injured). And now this: Another experienced, reliable regular is out. Shit. They’re going down, aren’t they?
Oh, and down in Serie B, Victor Obinna somehow survived a car accident that left his car demolished (after flipping over several times) with only brusies, and will MISS ONLY ONE MATCH. Apparently Victor said his prayers yesterday, because, damn. (Well, either that or he had his seatbelt on. Let that be a lesson to you kids.) If you read the Channel 4 article on the crash, you’ll see that Obinna was on his way home from training with Chievo. Huh. Guess he’s come back from … wherever it was he went to pout, then.
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Very classy moves by Man Utd fans last night. They booed both when Curci went down and then again with Aquilani. Jackasses. What a terrible loss for Roma and, more importantly (for me anyway), the Azzurri.
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Is it wrong that my initial reaction to Obinna’s crash is to lob obscenities in the direction of Inter? If those bastards didn’t interfere with his transfer to Fiorentina, then he wouldn’t have been driving on the same road where the other dude died!
But, seriously, I’m glad he’s ok, if a little shaken up. And maybe they can get that road fixed in Verona, damn.
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Joe - I was at the game last night and any fan reaction was borne out of the fact that the Roma players feigned injury on too many occasions. There was even a comedy moment when Curci and Perrotta were rolling about in the box and the ref. told them to get up. Sitting in the stands without the benefit of TV replays affects your immediate judgement. And just for the record, Aquilani was roundly applauded by the United fans as he was carried from the field.
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