Atlanta United center-back Stian Gregersen suffered a knee harm in his facet’s 2-0 conquer Orlando Metropolis on Sunday evening.
The 28-year-old, who joined from Ligue 2 facet Bordeaux over the offseason, has suffered a meniscus harm and can miss the 5 Stripes’ upcoming conflict towards Toronto FC, based on Doug Roberson of The Athletic.
Roberson explains that whereas Gregersen is out on Saturday, Atlanta will not understand how lengthy they’re going to be with out their Norwegian defender till later this week. Gregersen has began all three of Atlanta’s league video games and was simply beginning to settle in properly with the remainder of the beginning XI earlier than sustaining the setback.
The harm comes at a troublesome time for Atlanta boss Gonzalo Pineda, who’s set to tackle Toronto with out fellow center-back Luis Abram, who’s been known as as much as characterize Peru within the upcoming worldwide break. Attacking stars Thiago Almada and Giorgos Giakoumakis had been additionally known as as much as their respective Argentina and Greece nationwide groups.
With Atlanta now with out Gregersen and Abram for his or her upcoming fixture towards the Reds, Pineda will greater than seemingly should deploy a Derrick Williams and Noah Cobb partnership to tackle Federico Bernardeschi and Lorenzo Insigne.
The 5 Stripes put together to tackle Toronto this Saturday at BMO Subject, looking for their third straight win.