“What kind of curse is haunting Youssef En-Nesyri?”

“What kind of curse is haunting En-Nesyri?” This is how almountakhab.com titled yesterday to illustrate the news that the Sevilla striker, recently joined the Africa Cup with Morocco, will surely miss the premiere this Monday, January 10, against the other great favorite of his group, Ghana, because of the coronavirus. And surely the second duel is also missing, before Comoros on Thursday the 14th, due to knee discomfort.

En-Nesyri landed in the Moroccan concentration this week and, as the Moroccan publication reveals, was subjected to a Covid test that returned positive results, so it had to be quarantined until it tested negative. If you overcome the disease and your knee improves, would play against Gabon in the third match of the league, Tuesday, January 18.

Sure enough, the ram is having no luck in an ill-fated campaign for him, after the 24 goals between the League and the Champions League that made him the top scorer for Sevilla last year. After scoring three goals in the first five games of the regularity championship and playing for his national team against Sudan in early September, a muscle injury and subsequent relapse have allowed him to play only 65 more minutes, divided into two substitutions in the League and another in the Champions League. That, in the last three and a half months.

Lopetegui is sorry for his absence, although at the moment Sevilla has not suffered much in terms of results, at least in LaLiga. And the Atlas lions temen also that this ‘curse’ of the battering ram of Fez weighed down the possibilities of lift the African title for the second time in its history, the first since winning it in 1976.