Like PSG since the start of the season with Gonçalo Ramos, AS Monaco will be without its center forward Folarin Balogun for several weeks. The American striker injured his shoulder before the break.
Leader of Ligue 1 after 7 days, two points ahead of PSG, AS Monaco has lost its Anglo-American striker Folarin Balogun (23 years old) for two months. The former Arsenal and Reims striker injured his left shoulder in Rennes before the break, a match in which he scored his team’s winning goal.
According to L’Equipe, he suffers from a dislocation of the glenohumeral joint of the left shoulder and the normal duration of unavailability for this type of injury is two months. A hard blow for PSG’s competitor for the title. Recruited in August 2023 for 30 million euros, Balogun had a complicated first season on the Rock with only 8 goals scored (including one at the Parc des Princes last November during PSG’s 5-2 victory).
Balogun absent for two months and back for Monaco/PSG?
But against Rennes, Balogun scored his third goal of the season in Ligue 1, his third in a row, and finally seemed to be launched. Adi Hütter will have to cope without him and has two other options at center forward with Swiss international Breel Plunger (27 years old), who has not yet scored this season, and the very young Franco-Nigerian George Ilenikhena (18 years old), scorer of a goal since his arrival this summer, that of the victory against Barça in the Champions League.
With two months out, Balogun is expected to be out until mid-December and miss a dozen matches. He could potentially return against Reims on the weekend of December 14-15, just before the winter break, or more probably for the clash against PSG on the 16th day of Ligue 1, which will be played on the weekend of 4- January 5, 2025. By then, Gonçalo Ramos will have resumed normally with PSG, the Portuguese being expected on the field from the end of November, three months after his injury to his left ankle against Le Havre.
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