Emil Krafth has suffered a damaged collarbone in coaching and could possibly be sidelined for the rest of 2024 in consequence.
After the right-back was lacking from Sunday’s squad at Nottingham Forest, The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards has confirmed rumours that the Swede has suffered an harm, which has seen him pull out of the nationwide crew’s squad forward of upcoming video games towards Slovakia and Azerbaijan.
With Dan Burn suspended for our upcoming recreation towards West Ham after the worldwide break, the harm comes at a foul time for Newcastle, who can have Fabian Schar and Lloyd Kelly as their solely match centre-backs towards the Hammers.
Fortuitously, nonetheless, Kelly did look comfy within the coronary heart of defence in our latest 2-0 win over Chelsea within the Carabao Cup, so one recreation towards Julen Lopetegui’s facet shouldn’t be a trigger for concern and as a substitute an enormous alternative for the previous Bournemouth man to indicate his value.
If Kostas Tsimikas’ collarbone fracture in December 2023 is something to go by, then Krafth could possibly be out for round seven weeks, which might see him miss essential video games in each the league and our dwelling conflict with Brentford within the quarter finals Carabao Cup.