The UANL Tigers did not receive the best news for this start of the Apertura 2023 tournament of the MX League as they did not have the presence of their most important striker, the Frenchman André-Pierre Gignac, who was out of the feline squad due to a injury that will keep him away from soccer fields indefinitely.
The top scorer of the university team could not be present in the team’s first match against Club Puebla due to an injury that was announced by the same club through its account on the social network Twitter; The absence was quite negative because they were barely able to rescue a 1-1 draw to be able to score a point in their first match and it seems that the suffering will continue for much longer as they do not have a return date.
The information about this serious loss was made known by the UANL Tigers through a statement issued on their Twitter social network account, where they detailed that the French artilleryman was diagnosed with trauma to the left thigh and hip; They added that until now the medical staff of the Aztec institution has not been able to determine the exact time in which he will be able to return to the matches of the national tournament.
“André-Pierre Gignac was diagnosed with trauma to the left thigh and hip. His reintegration into group work is subject to evolution, ”the club reported upon learning of Gignac’s medical results after undergoing the relevant examinations.
This represents an important complication for the royal organization since it cannot count on its main attacking figure and striker indefinitely, who has become the favorite player of all the fans; The fact represents a valuable decrease in the goalscoring capacity of the squad that will now have to look for new game approaches to be able to add the necessary goals that allow them to claim victories during his absence.
The person in charge of taking André-Pierre Gignac’s position during the game against the Puebla Strip was Nicolás Ibáñez, who is emerging as the permanent substitute for the French gunner during all the games he is absent; the decision was favorable for the team and the coaching staff because Ibáñez was precisely responsible for scoring the goal that allowed them to save the tie in added time of the match.
With this injury Gignac joins Sebastián Córdova as the players who are in the rehabilitation process within the UANL Tigers; Córdova suffered groin pain after one of the training sessions he carried out with the Mexican team prior to the 2023 Gold Cup and which led to his absence from the international championship with El Tri.
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