Newcastle defender Tino Livramento lower a devastated determine as he hobbled down the tunnel after struggling an harm in opposition to Fulham within the Carabao Cup on Wednesday.
The total-back, 23, was carried off on a stretcher in opposition to Arsenal in September after struggling a knee harm which Eddie Howe described as ‘actually distressing’, finally making his return two months later.
Nevertheless it seems Livramento has suffered one other unlucky setback after being substituted off late on throughout Newcastle’s Carabao Cup conflict in opposition to the Cottagers and Selhurst Park.
After being changed by substitute Alex Murphy, the visibly devastated defender headed straight down the tunnel after showing to harm his knee as soon as once more.
Crew-mate Anthony Gordon, who was on the touchline warming up, came to visit to console Livramento by placing his arm round him in help.
After the match, which Newcastle gained 2-1 due to a stoppage time objective from Lewis Miley, the versatile full-back limped again out on to the pitch with heavy strapping on his left knee.
Newcastle defender Tino Livramento lower a devastated determine as he hobbled down the tunnel after struggling an harm in opposition to Fulham within the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night time
Livramento, who has been plagued with accidents already this season, appeared to harm his knee
The 23-year-old Magpies star was carried off on a stretcher with a knee harm in September
Livramento’s newest harm marks one other enormous blow for Howe, who’s within the midst of a defensive disaster at St James’ Park heading into the busy festive schedule.
Senior defenders Lewis Corridor, Dan Burn and Sven Botman, in addition to goalkeeper Nick Pope, are at present on the harm checklist, whereas Kieran Trippier and Emil Krafth are additionally not anticipated again till early January.
Miley, a central midfielder by commerce, was compelled to deputise at proper again in opposition to Fulham amid Newcastle’s rising harm disaster and may very well be deployed there once more by Howe when his aspect face Chelsea throughout Saturday’s early kick-off.
Requested whether or not he might present an replace on Livramento’s harm, Howe mentioned after the match: ‘No, however it does not look good going off the best way he did. It is a worrying signal and we’re so stretched in that space already, so it is a worrying blow.’
With subsequent summer season’s World Cup now lower than six months away, the setback additionally casts doubt over whether or not Livramento will get well in time to persuade Thomas Tuchel he deserves a seat on the airplane.
Talking on Livramento’s knee harm again in September, after he had been hauled off on a stretcher, Howe admitted it seemed ‘actually distressing’ and mentioned: ‘He is such a giant participant for us in so many various methods – his versatility, his angle, his high quality.
‘If we will miss that for any size of time, it’s going to be an enormous blow.
‘It does not sound nice,’ he later instructed BBC’s Match of the Day. ‘The actual fact he got here off on a stretcher will not be trying good.’
