Immobile picks up thigh injury, out for Bologna for 2 months | OneFootball

Ciro Immobile's return to Serie A has not been easy: the Italian striker was injured in the first round and will be sidelined for Bologna for eight weeks, the club announced this Monday.

Immobile, the top scorer in the history of the Italian Championship in a single season (2019/2020), alongside Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín, with 36 goals, had to be substituted in the first half of Bologna's defeat to Roma (1-0) last Saturday.

The club reported that the striker felt pain in the “right thigh femoral muscle, an injury that requires a rest period of about eight weeks.”

Immobile, 35, played for Besiktas last season, scoring 15 goals in 31 matches.

Revealed by Juventus and with stints at several Italian clubs, as well as Borussia Dortmund (2014-2015) and Sevilla (2015-2016), the experienced striker had the best phase of his career playing for Lazio (2016-2024), where he scored 207 goals in 340 matches.

A four-time Serie A top scorer, he also won the Euro Cup with the Italian national team in 2021.

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