Enner Valencia recovers from a right knee injury and would face Senegal

The coaching staff of the Ecuadorian national team headed by Argentine coach Gustavo Alfaro is optimistic about the presence of forward Enner Valencia in the next game against Senegal because he is evolving from the right knee sprain he suffered in the match against the Netherlands.Ecuador will face the Senegalese next Tuesday at 12 noon (Argentine time) to define the pass to the round of 16 World Cup final in Qatar for Group A. The Fenerbahçe player himself, from Turkey, in the last hours, indicated: “The knee is fine, it is improving”, in a brief response that he offered to journalists from the Ecuadorian media, who approached the hotel where the delegation is staying. in Doha.Valencia resorted to a hospital in the Qatari capital on Saturday to carry out some studies after last Friday, in the last minutes of the tie with the Netherlands will leave the field on a stretcher for showing signs of knee injury again right, without disclosing their results.

In the opening match, with the success against the local representative, last Sunday, the tournament’s top scorer with three conversions, like the Frenchman Kylian Mbappé, suffered the first traumatic episode in that joint, diagnosed as a “mild sprain” by the Ecuadorian doctor Camilo Chiquito, who denied a possible ligament tear, but regarding the second one he still did not give details. In any case, On Monday the Argentine coach Gustavo Alfaro together with the body of physicians will evaluate the state of Valencia, the one who, according to the opinion of the press close to the “Tricolor”, will ask to “be present” before Senegal despite any ailment.