Emil Krafth has suffered a broken collarbone in training and could be sidelined for the remainder of 2024 as a result.
After the right-back was missing from Sunday’s squad at Nottingham Forest, The Telegraph’s Luke Edwards has confirmed rumours that the Swede has suffered an injury, which has seen him pull out of the national team’s squad ahead of upcoming games against Slovakia and Azerbaijan.
With Dan Burn suspended for our upcoming game against West Ham after the international break, the injury comes at a bad time for Newcastle, who will have Fabian Schar and Lloyd Kelly as their only fit centre-backs against the Hammers.
Fortunately, however, Kelly did look comfortable in the heart of defence in our recent 2-0 win over Chelsea in the Carabao Cup, so one game against Julen Lopetegui’s side shouldn’t be a cause for concern and instead a big opportunity for the former Bournemouth man to show his worth.
If Kostas Tsimikas’ collarbone fracture in December 2023 is anything to go by, then Krafth could be out for around seven weeks, which would see him miss crucial games in both the league and our home clash with Brentford in the quarter finals Carabao Cup.
When you say Mr Reliable is that the same guy who has only played 21 of the last 87 league games?
Is that the same Mr Reliable who in the last 2 seasons has missed 53 games though injury?
Do you actually know what reliable means?
Daveys **** mate(Quote)
A comparison would be how you don’t comment on every article but reliably come across as a prize berk when you do 🙄
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Win!🤣😂
Trini Geordie(Quote)
I think you know what we mean – he’s Mr. Reliable by never letting us down when he plays – but you do love to find ‘fault’ with an article by any means necessary, don’t you?
You read and comment on this site a LOT for someone that seems to hate what we do…
Olly Hawkins(Quote)
What on earth is happening in training? Broken toes and now broken collarbone! Are they trying to kill each other! Get a grip somebody!
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