After Adnan Kovačević was left off the list of candidates for the October matches of the “A” national team due to injury, these matches will be also missed by Toni Šunjić, who in the meantime went to China, where he must spend time in quarantine; then also Ermin Bičakčić will not be available to the head coach Duško Bajević due to injury.
Bičakčić was injured on Sunday in the championship match of the 2nd round of the Bundesliga, so he will miss the play-off match against Northern Ireland for qualification for the EURO 2020, as well as the duels with the Netherlands and Poland in the Nations League.
“The first examinations showed that it was an injury of the internal meniscus of the knee”, says the doctor of the national team, Prof. Dr Reuf Karabeg and continues: “Today, it is planned for Bičakčić to have a knee arthroscopy, so after that we should have more complete information about his health condition. Although he has already done an MRI, this examination did not give explicit confirmation that it was an anterior cruciate ligament injury. In any case, Bičakčić will not be able to be counted on for the October matches.”
Dr Karabeg added that the medical team will monitor the course of his recovery and is in constant contact with the doctors who take care of Bičakčić, as is the practice when any player of our national team is injured.
