85 missed meetings and 592 days of unavailability, not counting his Covid -19 contaminations. This is the painful toll of Marco Verratti, far from being spared from injuries, since his arrival in Paris, and which will continue to rise in the weeks to come. In its medical report, Tuesday, October 26, PSG announced that its Italian midfielder would be unavailable for at least a month, and in particular against RB Leipzig in the Champions League, due to a deep injury to the oblique muscles.
Arrived in the summer of 2012 in the club of the capital, Marco Verratti nevertheless had two first full seasons with PSG, without major injuries. But the trouble began in the fall of 2015 for the Italian, affected in the left ankle, who had then missed seven games, including two Champions League games.
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A pubalgie which deprives him of Euro in 2016
From February 2016, the “Little Owl” also begins to experience pubic pain. He still played a few ends of the match in Ligue 1 and an eighth-final in the Champions League, but a pubalgie took him away from the field for about twenty matches until April. Suffering in the lower abdomen, Marco Verratti decides to undergo surgery in Doha (Qatar) and therefore gives up the Euro with Italy.
14 games missed due to an adductor tear in 2018
After experiencing some minor physical glitches in the meantime, the Parisian midfielder was injured again in April 2018. This time he suffered from a torn adductor, which again required an operation. Verratti misses the end of the season and the start of the next, i.e. unavailability for 14 games.
A dotted 2020/2021 season
In October 2020, the Parisian number 6 contracted an injury to the biceps crural, located at the back of the thigh, during the international break with the Italian selection. This new injury results in an unavailability of more than a month and eight missed matches, including three in the group stage of the Champions League. Last season, the Italian only participated in 31 games in all competitions with PSG, his weakest record since the 2015/2016 season marked by his pubalgie.
A painful hip
Against Marseille on Sunday, while he was starting, Marco Verratti left shortly before half-time due to hip pain. Unfortunate coincidence, he had already been hit in the same place last February, also during a Classic against the Marseillais. Since the start of the season, the Italian has taken part in less than 50% of the club’s matches in the capital.