Genoa – For some time, but actually almost since the beginning of the championship, the question of the hundred guns for Andrea Pirlo during press conferences it's always the same: mister, are you getting anyone back for the next match? Physiological question, considering how the coach himself has already clearly explained on several occasions how one of the main reasons for Sampdoria's current ranking position are the many injuries he has had to deal with in recent months.
For Sunday's trip to Cittadella, the coach was unbalanced about the possibility of having them back Kasami is available, while some optimism filters in for Esposito too. Recovering both of them, in addition to Benedetti returning after serving his suspension, would already be a great achievement. He would expand choices and quality for midfield and attack, precisely in a key away match for the rest of the championship. For example, it would allow Pirlo to push Depaoli back in defense and recompose that Esposito-Verre tandem behind De Luca which he has identified as the most productive, today, among the possible alternatives.
Kasami these days is returned to Switzerland to complete the recovery phase from the pain in the semitendinosus muscle of the left thigh, a problem that arose during training. He too, like Pedrola, has chosen to rely on a center he trusts to recover and should rejoin his teammates in Bogliasco by the middle of this week, to then be able to take the field in Cittadella. Only the moment of returning to the group is what indicates complete recovery. If this were to be the case, Kasami's injury would at least have coincided with the three-match suspension he received after the naive elbow given to Kourfalidis during the match against Feralpisalò. Minimal consolation, but consolation nonetheless.
Esposito too in recent days he split his time between Bogliasco and Brescia to recover from the first degree injury to the rectus femoris of his right thigh that he had suffered in training. The striker, who was going through a splendid run of form, has missed two matches so far, the last against Venezia and Parma, which ended with two defeats. His absence was greatly felt, Pirlo replaced him with Benedetti in Venice and with Depaoli against the league leaders, but it was a clear adaptation. Esposito is truly one of the fundamental players of this Sampdoria, having him or not having him makes the difference. Obviously beyond the quality of the individual performance, very good, good or not so good days are part of the history of every footballer.
Pedrola also returned to Italy on Thursday evening. On Friday he underwent yet another MRI, this time in a laboratory in Genoa. So he moved to Desenzano, as a dependent and with the consent of the owners, to work for a few days in the studio of Giorgio Gasparini, head of the Sampdoria physiotherapy area. This is nothing new, there are already several players who have spent recovery periods, more or less long, and have undergone treatments in Gasparini's studio in Desenzano (Conti, De Luca, Barreca, Vieira, Stojanovic… ) , rather than in the Mugnaini premises. There is no communication regarding his return times, after what has happened we are proceeding with cautious feet. And Pirlo himself never spoke about it again.
The return of Ronaldo Vieira should also be approaching, he was injured in Brescia last December 3rd, a second degree lesion of the adductor longus of the right thigh, which came at the end of a week where the Englishman had also worked separately in management mode for a couple of days, due to some muscular discomfort which then unfortunately it turned into an injury in the match. Even for Vieira the decisive moment will be his return to the group.
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