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When it rains it actually does pour at Newcastle United.
If Sunday’s FA Cup defeat to Brighton wasn’t unhealthy sufficient, we misplaced Anthony Gordon to a three-game ban and had it confirmed on Wednesday morning that Lewis Corridor has been dominated out for the season with a foot damage that requires surgical procedure.
To make issues even worse, a grim replace has now arrived on the health of Sven Botman, providing extra unhealthy information for Eddie Howe.
Sven Botman has turn into the third Newcastle United star who has been dominated out of subsequent Sunday’s Carabao Cup Remaining.
In a Wednesday evening unique for The Mail, Craig Hope has revealed that the Dutchman is about for surgical procedure on his knee after visiting a specialist on Tuesday.
It’s NOT the identical knee that underwent ACL surgical procedure final 12 months and it’s hoped the problem will not be a critical one, however it’s sufficient to see him go beneath the knife for a second time within the house of a 12 months.
Hope stories that it needs to be made clearer within the coming days simply how lengthy the 25-year-old shall be out. Nonetheless, it is going to actually be sufficient to maintain him out of Monday’s journey to West Ham and the cup ultimate in opposition to Liverpool subsequent weekend.
Within the brief time period, dropping Botman for an important run of video games in league an cup is a large blow, however the points run deeper than that.
We don’t but know the complete extent of his newest subject, but it’s an actual fear that he’s now needed to bear surgical procedure on each of his knees over the previous 12 months.
The previous Lille star solely returned from a 10-month absence from ACL surgical procedure in January and has sat out the previous 5 video games resulting from one other knee drawback.
Eddie Howe instructed the media final Friday that Botman was resulting from prepare that day and was ‘shut’ to creating Sunday’s sport in opposition to Brighton, however “didn’t really feel 100% assured in his physique.” And now we all know why.
Speedy restoration, Sven!
