Injury expert: Lewis set to be out for two months after Newcastle confirmation
Newcastle United left-back Jamal Lewis could be out for up to “eight weeks” while he recovers from a suspected hamstring setback.
That is the view of injury expert Ben Dinnery, who runs the Premier Injuries site and has a background in medicine and data analysis.
Lewis pulled up and was substituted off less than 15 minutes into Newcastle’s 3-1 defeat to Liverpool last Thursday (16 December).
As quoted by Chronicle Live last Sunday, Magpies boss Eddie Howe revealed: “We don’t expect [Lewis] back for the foreseeable future.”
Dinnery suggests that the 23-year-old may be out until at least after the winter break, which begins in late January.
“The mechanism of injury was the acceleration phase of a sprint,” he told Football Insider‘s Adam Williams.
“He pulled up fairly sharply, which is a good indication that it is his hamstring.
“The worrying thing is you have varying degrees of strain. If it is a grade one, you would expect him to be back for the festive period.
“But the fact that Eddie Howe has said that he is out for the ‘foreseeable future’ means it’s probably more severe, maybe high-end grade two.
“If that is the case, it could be somewhere between four and eight weeks, so maybe after the winter break.”
Lewis has featured just six times in all competitions for relegation-threatened Newcastle this term.
However, all but one of those appearances have come under new boss Howe, who replaced Steve Bruce in early November.
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