Napoli threatens after Lukaku skips training and likely missing crucial AC Milan clash
Romelu Lukaku has been the focus at Napoli this week. Whatever happens, Lukaku is unlikely to be available for Monday’s crucial Serie A match against AC Milan — a head-to-head battle for second place. For his part, Lukaku — who missed the first half of the season with a serious thigh injury — insists he stayed in Belgium for medical reasons after national team doctors detected a muscular problem that had not been diagnosed by Napoli, but had kept him on the bench for the club’s previous two matches.
MILAN (AP) — Romelu Lukaku has been the focus at Napoli this week. Just not in a good way. Lukaku failed to turn up to training on Tuesday and the club issued a hardline statement that it may take “appropriate disciplinary action” against the forward.
That includes freezing him out of the first team. Whatever happens, Lukaku is unlikely to be available for Monday’s crucial Serie A match against AC Milan — a head-to-head battle for second place. For his part, Lukaku — who missed the first half of the season with a serious thigh injury — insists he stayed in Belgium for medical reasons after national team doctors detected a muscular problem that had not been diagnosed by Napoli, but had kept him on the bench for the club’s previous two matches.
“As it is the second problem I have had since I returned at the beginning of November, I chose to do the rehabilitation in Belgium,” Lukaku added in a social media post. “I could never turn my back on Napoli, ever. “There is nothing I want more than to play and win with my team… but right now I have to make sure I’m 100% clinically, because recently I haven’t been and this has also had a mental impact … but in the end I’ll make it and I’ll help Napoli and the national team achieve their goals when I’m called upon.
It’s everything I want. ” Lukaku went to Belgium to join the national team but was forced to pull out of the squad and did not travel to the United States for the friendly matches against the U. S.