So that?s not good. Just when one of Juventus? injured midfielders is set to return to the squad, we have a development that could very well see another mid miss some time.
And it just so happens to be arguably Juve?s best midfielder going these days, too.
In what was an otherwise very uneventful pre-match press conference in Turin on Thursday afternoon, Juventus manager Max Allegri announced that Uruguayan starlet Rodrigo Bentancur has picked up a back injury and is now in jeopardy of missing Friday night?s Derby d?Italia against Inter Milan at Allianz Stadium. As much as there was some joy in the fact that Allegri said that Emre Can will be in the match day squad and be available for selection for the first time in over a month, the fact that Bentancur is now a serious injury doubt took some of the shine off the positive midfield development.
@OfficialAllegri: "@RodriiBentancur has a back problem. I will see how he is according to today's training and understand how to organise the midfield."#JuveInter #ForzaJuve? JuventusFC (@juventusfcen) December 6, 2018

The line about evaluating Bentancur at training on Thursday is pretty much the same kind of thing we hear whenever Allegri is thinking of resting somebody and/or seeing what kind of condition a player who is possibly injured is in.
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