No longer a Barça lounger: Sergiño Dest at PSV

That was just a nice photo, posted four+ hours ago, but yes, Dest starts another match today. {Pepi and Esmir B are on the bench.] PSV visiting NEC Nijmegen in the KNVB Beker (Dutch Cup).

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match today 1:55pm on ESPN+

 

Starts:

 

Went off with a leg injury. Didn't look good.

 

Yep, looked like Dest injured his hamstring and had to be helped off of the field.

 

Ugh hopefully he's only out for a few weeks.

 

grrr. Apparently only one of Jedi and Dest can be healthy at any given weekend.

Pepi scored the winner (2-1) by the way at 86, and went off at 88.

 

Read a couple of Dutch sportsnews reports. Folks are speculating hamstring (since that's what he grabbed on the way off) but no official word that I've found.

 

USMNT gets injury scare as Sergiño Dest 'out for a little while' - ESPN

with the player later saying he will be "out for a little while" but hopes to be back in action before the end of the season.

 

Huge blow if he’s not available for the WC. Hoping whatever timeline we get allows him to get back and get some minutes for PSV before the end of the season.

 

Direct quote from Dest’s Instagram (emphasis mine):

“l'm out for a little while to do what I love the most! But one thing for sure this is NOT the end of the season! I'll do everything in my power to make sure that i'm coming back asap on the right timing! Thanks for the messages won't let you guys down!”

 

Of course he's committed to recovery.I always worry that this is the start of a series of tears and soft tissue injuries that build up over time.

 

Bosz holds his breath about Dest injury: 'That's usually not good news'

 

'PSV will not have Sergiño Dest in the coming period, as a medical examination showed on Sunday. The 25-year-old defender fell out during the home game against AZ with a thigh injury. It is difficult to predict exactly how long Dest will be sidelined at the moment. The 37-time international of the American national team focuses on a return to the final phase of the season, with the World Cup next summer in the United States, Canada and Mexico as an important goal', reports PSV.

 

So a thigh injury and not a hamstring? Is that better or worse?

 

I’m pretty sure Europeans use the word “thigh” to refer to the whole upper leg, front and back. It’s probably a hamstring injury.

 

Ah. Learn something new every day.

 

To be fair the word was probably translated from Dutch but in the past I’ve seen both German and Dutch translations use the word “thigh” before where we would definitely say “hamstring”.