Zlatan Ibrahimovic missed yet another crucial game in AC Milan’s season last night and reflections are ongoing about his future, a report claims.
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La Gazzetta dello Sport report that he missed the 0-0 draw against Torino due to an overload in his knee, which adds to the tendinopathy and the inflammation of his Achilles tendon that he has suffered already this season. The striking thing is that none of these are produced by a trauma or an obvious injury on the field but are rather products of fatigue and the excessive use of his body.
Reports continue to arrive from Milanello stating that the Swede is the first to arrive and the last to leave, with hours and hours of additional activity for a man who is now into his 40s. On the day of the game he was ruled out of playing against the Granata with the latest problem in his left leg after his calf, thigh and knee.
An ‘overload’ is a generic already used by the Rossoneri doctor for Ibra such as before Christmas, and that time the Swede only missed the Empoli game but perhaps thanks to the winter break. Zlatan has now missed 16 out of the 41 total games played by Milan this season and then there are several other matches in which he played just a few minutes.
It is too early to understand how long he will be out for this time, but now it is no longer a matter of only the odd injury to battle. Evaluations will take place between now and the end of the season, and he might decide to call it a day.
