It was announced in Rome yesterday by AS Roma’s Club doctor Mario Brozzi that striker and talisman Francesco Totti may need an operation on his knee.
The evergreen striker suffered a knee ligament injury in Saturday’s 1 – 1 drawn with AS Livorno.
Brozzi went on to ponder whether there was a partial or total lesion to the cruciate ligament. Only tests would determine that, he said.
Arsene Wenger insists he expects to keep Arsenal’s best players next season despite a disappointing campaign in which their English Premier League title hopes crumbled.
The Gunners have endured a nightmare two weeks which have dashed their hopes in both the title race and the Champions League but they banished a little of the gloom with a 2-0 win over visitors Reading on Saturday.
Rafael Benitez admits the loss of “the Anfield effect” will be a huge blow to his Liverpool side in the Champions League semi-final with Chelsea.
Benitez’s team have beaten the west London club at this stage of the competition twice in the last three seasons.
But on both those occasions Liverpool enjoyed the advantage of playing the second leg at home and the legendary Anfield atmosphere was acknowledged as a major factor in both victories.
AS Roma’s stunning 2-1 victory at the Santiago Bernabeu to knock Real Madrid out of the Champions League has got everyone believing that there is once again a title race in Italy.
