Alvaro Morata hospitalised after scary clash of heads during AC Milan training

Alvaro Morata starred arsenic AC Milan bushed Real Madrid successful the Champions League earlier this week, but helium has present suffered a freak mishap successful grooming that volition spot him enactment successful infirmary overnight

AC Milan prima Alvaro Morata volition walk the nighttime successful infirmary aft being progressive successful a scary clash of heads during training.

Morata joined Milan successful the summertime from Atletico Madrid, caller from captaining Spain to winning Euro 2024. While helium has struggled for goals astatine the Serie A giants, helium was connected the scoresheet for Tuesday's daze triumph astatine Real Madrid.

The Spain prima was connected manus to crook successful Milan’s 2nd goal of the nighttime aft Rafael Leao’s archetypal changeable was parried backmost into the information country by Andriy Lunin. But his hopes of continuing his scoring tally person been dashed.

Milan question to Cagliari connected Saturday evening, but Morata volition present miss the game. The seasoned striker was progressive successful an incidental successful grooming connected Thursday that volition unit him to stay connected the sidelines.

According to Sky Sports Italia, Morata suffered an wounded to his caput aft a collision successful grooming with centre-back Strahinja Pavlovic. It is understood that the striker took a hard deed during a mid-air clash with his team-mate.

The 32-year-old was taken to a section infirmary aft the incidental wherever helium underwent an MRI scan. That thankfully came backmost negative, but Morata is expected to enactment successful for reflection for a fewer hours truthful doctors tin ascertain a afloat diagnosis.

He is expected to stay successful infirmary overnight and volition miss Saturday's crippled successful Sardinia. Milan brag Paulo Fonseca is already preparing for Morata's absence, with England planetary Tammy Abraham expected to instrumentality his spot successful the starting line-up.

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It is chartless astatine this constituent if Morata volition beryllium acceptable capable to diagnostic successful Spain's upcoming Nations League games. La Roja brag Luis de la Fuente volition sanction his squad connected Friday for travel to Denmark and the sojourn of Switzerland.

Fonseca meantime volition apt rue Morata's unfortunate mishap aft his heroics astatine the Bernabeu. Following this side's memorable win, the Portuguese manager hailed the Spanish striker.

“Abraham is simply a subordinate with antithetic characteristics. Alvaro has this quality to link the midfield with the attack, whereas Abraham does not person those qualities. When Morata came off, it’s existent that we stopped having truthful overmuch of the ball,” Fonseca said.

“However, Alvaro was truly bushed and we needed to marque the chance. Abraham does enactment good defensively and holds up the ball, but people helium is not the aforesaid arsenic Morata. I bash not hold erstwhile radical accidental Italian shot is defensive.

"We tin beryllium a squad with much inaugural and dominance of the lucifer successful Europe, these are the characteristics of the team. We proved that Italian teams don’t conscionable defend, we played the shot and had large positioning. The broadside has the patience to support the ball, picking the close infinitesimal to attack."

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