First and foremost, many football supporters hate international breaks because their favorite and most important players on their clubs teams could get seriously injured. Secondly, international breaks mean a ton of down time and dullness. That’s the main reason media despise international breaks, on an almost equal level.
We do have a major Arsenal story line to discuss on this Thursday though, it’s Arsene Wenger warning Chile not to make a “suicidal decision” regarding the hamstring of star forward Alexis Sanchez.
“I got a text last night [to say] that he has a hamstring injury,” Wenger is quoted by the Daily Mirror as telling beIN SPORTS.
“The team from Chile has travelled without him and they kept him to try and get him fit to play Uruguay for the second game on Tuesday night.”
“I believe that with a hamstring injury, we have to get access for our medical staff to the MRI scan to see what grade it is, how bad it is and make absolutely sure they don’t make any suicidal decision that could harm his future for two or three months,” the Arsenal boss continued.
“That is absolutely important. It’s a grey area between the national team and the club team and of course they look at their own results, which I can understand, but we have to preserve the health of Alexis Sanchez. He always wants to play and that’s where it is a more sensitive case because he’s always ready to play even when injured.”
Alexis Sanchez suffered a hamstring injury last season, and their is/was concern that he could miss Arsenal’s next Premier League clash, against Manchester United, on November 19th. Sanchez did play all 90 minutes of Arsenal’s last outing, a 1-1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur.
Chile takes on Colombia tonight.
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