Tomori injury leaves Milan thinner again

Milan have another injury problem, this time in the middle of the defence. ANSA reported that Fikayo Tomori suffered a lesion to a medial flexor muscle in his right thigh during Milan’s match against Bologna.

The diagnosis matters because Tomori is not a squad extra who can disappear without changing the picture. He is one of the regular defensive options, and muscle injuries tend to remove not only a player but a coach’s freedom: selection narrows, cover gets moved, and one absence starts asking questions of the next game before the previous one has cooled.

ANSA said another medical check is planned. No timetable for a return was confirmed in the report beyond that further assessment.

That is the useful line here. Milan know the nature of the damage, but not yet the full competitive cost. A defender has gone from available to unavailable in a match setting, and the club’s next decisions at the back will be made around that fact rather than around preference.

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