Argentina striker Joaquin Panichelli suffers serious knee injury ahead of World Cup

[p]The 23-year-old has only made one appearance for the World Cup holders but was expected to play in Friday's friendly against [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/mauritania/Q5QPxhPn/"]Mauritania[/a].[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/panichelli-joaquin/SSL080TM/"]Panichelli[/a] is the leading scorer in France's Ligue 1 this season with 16 goals for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/strasbourg/nP6UzIU1/"]Strasbourg[/a].[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/argentina/f9OppQjp/"]Argentina[/a] said in a social media post that he would undergo medical tests to determine the extent of the injury.[/p][embed guid="bbf45135-7476-436e-ac1a-2af005a97d41" url="https://x.com/Argentina/status/2037362334964879698" social-type="twitter" /][p]But local media said he had torn his ACL and would miss the World Cup in the United States, Mexico and Canada, which starts on June 11th.[/p][p]Argentina will start their title defence on June 16th against [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/algeria/nc87N1BR/"]Algeria[/a], before also facing [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/austria/naHiWdnt/"]Austria[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/jordan/vNcmJoU2/"]Jordan[/a] in Group J of the expanded 48-team tournament.[/p]