Patrick Vieira made the announcement about Nicolae Stanciu » What chances does the Romanian international have to play in the next round of Serie A

Ashley Davis25/10/2025

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Article by Alexandru Stanciu – Published Friday, October 24, 2025 9:31 p.m. / Updated Friday, October 24, 2025 9:48 p.m.

After being unavailable for 3 weeks, Nicolae Stanciu (32 years old) returned to training supported by Genoa, but the team's technician, Patrick Vieira (49 years old), claims that the Romanian international is not yet ready to perform in the match against Torino, from the eighth stage of Serie A.

Stanciu missed the last four matches at Genoa and the Romanian national team. On the MRI in late September, the verdict was “a grade II injury to the biceps femoris muscle of the right thigh.”

The captain of the Romanian national team was included by the selector Mircea Lucescu (80 years old) on the preliminary list of foreigners for the matches with Bosnia and San Marino.

Nicolae Stanciu has returned to training, but will not play in the next round of Serie A

Genoa's coach, Patrick Vieira, revealed that Nicolae Stanciu has returned to training.

“Stanciu is too far behind in his preparation to play on Sunday, but he has been training with the team for the past two days“, said the Frenchman, according to buoncalcioatutti.it.

Genoa will travel on Sunday, October 26, to Turin, which defeated the reigning champion Napoli in the previous stage, score 1-0. Stanciu could be part of the squad for the home match against Cremonese, which will be played on Wednesday, October 29.

Genoa started this Serie A season very poorly. The team patronized by Dan Șucu is in 19th place in the first Italian league, with only 3 points accumulated in 7 games.

Nicolae Stanciu's team has not yet found the way to victory in the championship and has the second worst attack in Serie A, scoring three goals (the same as Pisa and Parma), with only Hellas Verona scoring twice in seven matches.

This season in Serie A, Stanciu ticked off 87 minutes with Lecce, 65 with Juventus and 23 with Lazio. Otherwise, Stanciu was absent due to injury in the matches with Parma and Napoli and was only an unused reserve in the matches with Como and Bologna.