{"id":2980,"date":"2025-12-02T19:06:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:06:46","slug":"juventus-lose-dusan-vlahovic-for-three-months-with-high-grade-adductor-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=2980","title":{"rendered":"Juventus lose Dusan Vlahovic for three months with \u2018high grade\u2019 adductor injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We knew there wasn\u2019t going to be good news on the way with how Dusan Vlahovic reacted to his injury in the first half of Saturday night\u2019s win over Cagliari. The 25-year-old striker was in pain, requested a sub almost immediately and had his face in his jersey as he expressed his displeasure in the seconds and minutes following the initial twinge he felt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The news has come in after Vlahovic visited J Medical on Monday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">And guess what? It isn\u2019t good \u2014 at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juventus.com\/en\/news\/articles\/spalletti-we-re-in-the-italian-cup-to-win-it-01-12-25\">Juventus have announced<\/a> that Vlahovic has suffered \u201ca high-grade injury\u201d to his adductor and that \u201cfurther medical consultations will be necessary to determine the most appropriate treatment.\u201d What is missing is how long Vlahovic will be out for, according to the club. But most in the Italian media believe that Vlahovic is likely looking at two or three months on the sidelines due to the injury he picked up this past weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here is the official medical update after Vlahovic underwent his scans at J Medical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote _1teeyfa0 ls9zuh9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Following the muscle problem he suffered during the Juventus Men\u2019s First Team match against Cagliari, Dusan Vlahovic underwent further radiological examinations at J|medical this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">The tests revealed a high-grade injury to the muscle-tendon junction of the left adductor longus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Further medical consultations will be necessary to determine the most appropriate treatment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.juventus.com\/en\/news\/articles\/spalletti-we-re-in-the-italian-cup-to-win-it-01-12-25\">his pre-match press conference<\/a> ahead of Juventus\u2019 Coppa Italia opener against Udinese, Juve manager Luciano Spalletti confirmed that it will be a while before we see Vlahovic on the field again:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"duet--article--blockquote _1teeyfa0 ls9zuh9\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201dVlahovic? The doctors will determine how long Dusan needs to recover before he can return to action. My feeling is that it will take two to three months to see him back on the pitch. I would have preferred to have him available because he was very focused and very much part of the team.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Well, that\u2019s not good. The fact that it could be <em>more<\/em> than two or three months feels like a possibility. But at this point, speculating that Vlahovic won\u2019t even be back until the final stretch of the 2025-26 just feels a little too much like armchair doctors and trainers taking over, so we\u2019ll leave that to Juve\u2019s training staff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No matter if it\u2019s two, three or even four months, Juventus being without their clear-cut best option at the No. 9 position knowing that it\u2019s a big month of December (and then January and February) both domestically and in Europe is the kind of development that this team just didn\u2019t need knowing that it\u2019s got plenty of other issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After both players scored in the comeback win over Bod\u00f8\/Glimt last week, the pressure now clearly falls onto the shoulders of Jonathan David and Lo\u00efs Openda for goal scoring production up front. Who knows if Spalletti has a preference between the two at this point considering he has relied so much on Vlahovic since he was hired to replace Igor Tudor in late October. But both of them will get much more game time now compared to the first three months of the season now with Vlahovic out for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Vlahovic is Juventus\u2019 leading goal scorer across all competitions this season with six goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackwhitereadallover.com\/team-news\/34295\/dusan-vlahovic-injury-juventus-luciano-spalletti-2025-serie-a-champions-league\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew there wasn\u2019t going to be good news on the way with how Dusan Vlahovic reacted to his injury in the first half of Saturday night\u2019s win over Cagliari. The 25-year-old striker was in pain, requested a sub almost immediately and had his face in his jersey as he expressed his displeasure in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-aggiornamenti-serie-a"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}