Inter striker Lukaku in doubt for Authentic Madrid clash with thigh injury

Romelu Lukaku could miss out on Inter’s Champions League clash with Genuine Madrid just after struggling a thigh injury.

The Nerazzurri striker went for an MRI scan immediately after emotion irritation throughout the goalless attract with Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Inter confirmed the Belgium worldwide has strained a muscle mass in his still left thigh and would keep on to be assessed.

“Romelu Lukaku underwent an MRI scan at the Humanitas Institute in Rozzano this morning subsequent a trouble that arose throughout Tuesday’s Champions League sport against Shakhtar Donetsk,” examine a assertion on the club’s site.

“The scans confirmed that he has experienced a pressure in his left thigh. His ailment will be monitored each day.”

Lukaku is expected to sit out the Serie A match in opposition to Parma on Saturday and could also overlook up coming Wednesday’s check out to the Santiago Bernabeu.

The information is a blow to head mentor Antonio Conte, whose facet have drawn every single of their opening Team B matches versus Borussia Monchengladbach and Shakhtar.

That leaves them third in the table ahead of future week’s clash with Authentic, who are bottom acquiring collected just a single stage from their opening two group-stage matches.

Lukaku has scored 9 targets in 11 appearances in all competitions this period, selecting up exactly where he left off soon after a record-breaking debut campaign at the San Siro subsequent his €80 million (£74m/$90m) go from Manchester United.

The 27-year-old scored 34 targets in all competitions to equivalent the file held by Brazilian legend Ronaldo for most ambitions scored in their debut time for the Serie A club.

9 of those people goals arrived in the Europa League as Inter reached the ultimate right before losing 3-2 Sevilla.

Lukaku found the web in that match and in executing so extended his personal document by scoring in 11 consecutive matches in the level of competition, a run stretching all the way back again to November 2014 when he was even now at Everton.

In the meantime, his 23 league ambitions assisted Inter complete runners-up in Serie A, just a single stage powering champions Juventus. It was their optimum finish in nine yrs and ideal details tally given that their treble-successful period in 2009-10 under Jose Mourinho.

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