Unfortunately, Nicolás Benedetti is once again the protagonist of bad news for Club America as it has been since it reached the Biggest there in January 2019, this time in the face of the visit to Tijuana for the ninth day of the Guardians 2021 Tournament of the MX League.
Is that the 23-year-old Colombian midfielder, 1.78 m. and 70 kilos still suffers from the muscular discomfort that has marginalized him from the tracks all this time and he will not even be part of the bench of substitutes at the Estadio Calent de la Frontera.
Therefore, without Benedetti or the expelled Richard Sánchez, the technical director Santiago Solari will suffer two important absences in midfield, where Santiago Naveda, Pedro Aquino, Francisco Sebastián Córdova, Mauro Lainez and Álvaro Fidalgo will surely be starters.
Benedetti’s nightmare in America
The South American winger broke his cruciate ligaments in his knee in early 2020, leaving him out of the field for almost eight months. When he returned, before Leon he suffered the fissure of the menisci that marginalized him for another 60 days and, on top of that, coronavirus in a moment.
Already in this 2021, the Poet continued with the inconveniences in his physique and could not be taken into account by the Indiecito, so that in the Nest of Coapa they will seriously evaluate its continuity or not after June, since it still has contract with the estimate until December 31, 2023.