Barella operates: out a month, return after Christmas – TS

SUSPECT OF RELIEF – A sigh of relief, in the end, many have pulled it. Because it is true that the first diagnosis on Saturday night spoke of a suspected knee sprain with relative stop of a month, but considering the images and the grimaces of pain, the risk that Nicolò Barella had done himself much harm was high. However, the midfielder finished his 2019, but in the end a stop month is a lesser evil than there would have been in the event of a broken ligament.

AFTER CHRISTMAS – Barella yesterday underwent clinical and instrumental examinations at the Istituto Humanitas di Rozzano. The investigations – Inter has announced – have confirmed the distortion to the right knee, but they have also "evidenced a detachment of a cartilaginous fragment of the patella". Problem that in the coming days will force Barella to an arthroscopic operation just to remove this fragment. Expected four-week stop; difficult to think that at home Inter will decide to hasten his return for Inter-Genoa on December 21st. So Barella will be back in 2020 and will be able to work calmly during the Christmas break.