Injury expert seethes after Liverpool update on Keita setback
Liverpool midfielder Naby Keita is lucky to have escaped serious injury during the 5-0 mauling of Man United last Sunday.
So says injury expert Ben Dinnery, who runs the Premier Injuries site and has a background in medicine and data analysis.
Keita, who netted Liverpool’s first goal, was forced to withdraw after 60 minutes at Old Trafford.
He was stretchered off after being on the receiving end of a wild Paul Pogba challenge, which resulted in a red card for the Frenchman.
As reported by the Liverpool Echo on 26 October, Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders revealed Keita is “looking good”.
Dinnery claimed that Keita had dodged a bullet as his foot was not planted when the horror challenge came in.
“It was a sending off every day of the week, without question,” he told Football Insider correspondent Adam Williams,
“Naby Keita was fortune that his foot wasn’t planted. If he had all that weight going through that foot, he would be in a far worse position than he is now.
“It was a really bad challenge. But even though he was stretchered off, the early signs show there is cause for optimism.
“He will maybe have been sent for an X-ray and there is the potential that there is a hairline fracture. But it certainly wasn’t splintered.
“Jurgen Klopp said the injury was very painful and that he’d know in the next day or two if there were any major problems.
“We hope that it will just be heavy bruising or a laceration from those studs.
“If that foot had been planted, we could have seen damage to the knee or maybe the ankle.“
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