{"id":176837,"date":"2025-09-23T17:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176837\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:46:07","slug":"corsera-leaos-calf-has-clinically-healed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/176837\/","title":{"rendered":"CorSera: Leao&#8217;s calf has &#8216;clinically healed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Leao\u2019s injury has fully healed, but AC Milan\u2019s medical staff continue to use a lot of caution before letting him return.<\/p>\n<p>It is now over a month since Leao sustained a calf injury during the Coppa Italia victory over Bari. Not long after scoring the opening goal, the Portuguese winger jumped for an aerial duel and seemed to land awkwardly, asking to come off.<\/p>\n<p>It was believed to be a minor issue at the time, but as his period of absence approaches six weeks it has been anything but that. Nevertheless, Leao\u2019s return to action is not far away as per Corriere della Sera (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/rassegna-stampa\/milan-la-lesione-al-soleo-di-leao-e-clinicamente-guarita-591413\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanNews<\/a>), with an eye on a crucial upcoming fixture above all.<\/p>\n<p>The paper claims that the muscle has been clinically healed, and the staff at Milanello are optimistic about the forward\u2019s recovery for Sunday\u2019s big league match against Napoli at San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>Interviewed yesterday by SportMediaset, Allegri gave his own thoughts on <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/allegri-leao-return-lecce-suspension\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when Leao will return<\/a>, suggesting there is still quite a bit of uncertainty regarding the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTomorrow [today, vs. Lecce] absolutely not. We\u2019ll evaluate him on Thursday and Friday and then decide whether or not he\u2019ll be available for Napoli,\u201d the coach said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Leao\u2019s injury has fully healed, but AC Milan\u2019s medical staff continue to use a lot of caution&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-176837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}