A strong blow to Ibrahimovic in the Milan-Juventus match

AC Milan striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic injured his knee in the summit match against Juventus (3-0) in the Italian League, on Sunday, 5 weeks before his country's first match against Spain in the European Cup 2020.

Zlatan (39 years) felt pain when trying to control one of the balls shared with Dutch defender Matisse de Ligt, and stayed on the field for about two minutes after that before leaving and replacing the Croatian Ante Rebi in the 66th minute.

And "Ibra" had just renewed his contract with Milan for a season. Extra until June 2022, and he returned to the ranks of his country participating in the European Cup finals next month, five years after his retirement from international football.

Sweden will play its first match in the continental finals on June 14, against Spain.

The Italian television showed pictures of Ibrahimovic at the end of the match, standing on the edge of the stadium, bandaged his left knee, celebrating the great victory of the Rossoneri over the old lady by three goals, to strengthen the first of his chances of participating in the Champions League next season after an absence of several years.

Milan coach Stefano Pioli showed no signs of concern about Ibrahimovic's injury, saying, "Zlatan was not 100 percent in physical condition and participated in half of Friday's training session. He was feeling some pain in his knee, we hope it is not dangerous, and we will assess his condition in the coming days." .

Zlatan suffered a serious knee ligament injury when he was defending the colors of Manchester United in the match against Anderlecht in the European League in February 2017, after which he missed about 9 months from the stadiums, during his recovery period, he joined the American Los Angeles Galaxy ranks.

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