Athletic Club
Nico Williams has effectively ended his club season and is now hoping to recover in time for the World Cup. The Spanish international is undergoing an MRI on Monday to determine the exact extent of his injury.
Nico Williams in pain.
The atmosphere in the Williams household has been tense since Nico was forced off before halftime in the Athletic Club-Valencia match with a hamstring issue in his left leg. Early indications are not positive, but everything depends on the results of the MRI, which will reveal the severity of the injury and the expected recovery time.
The younger of the Williams brothers will undergo tests this morning while his teammates train at Lezama. The results will be evaluated quickly, and all parties will focus on his rehabilitation. The key questions are which specific muscle is affected (biceps femoris, semitendinosus, or semimembranosus) and how extensive the damage is.
The general consensus is that Nico Williams’ club season is already over, as he is unlikely to return in the remaining two weeks of the campaign. He is now keeping his fingers crossed that this muscle setback does not prevent him from being available for Luis de la Fuente’s squad for the World Cup, which begins in a month. The Spanish national team’s medical staff will closely monitor all tests and recovery projections for Nico.
This muscle injury comes at a particularly frustrating time for the younger Williams brother, as he had just overcome a persistent pubalgia that hampered him for three-quarters of the season and forced him to take several weeks off for treatment.