Silva Injury

[justlurkin]

If we don't beat Sunderland without Merlin then we can forget about winning the league.

[ant london]

Now he can get on the training ground and practise his bleedin' corners

Haha I fully echo those sentiments!!!

[Cocacolajojo1]

I have a feeling that most of these injuries will be miraculously healed after the international break. Is anyone whose national team has a qualifier coming up injured?

[Herb]

wtf is it with all of these calf injuries?? is there some issue with our training methods??

No not at all. Call it coincidence. In most cases a calf tear is a result of another issue. It could be an weak ankle, hamstring issue, etc. It just happens that the calf takes a lot of load and that is what ultimately tears.

It looked like stud damage from what I saw of it - against cska he took a stamp / set of studs into the back of his calf and went down injured but got up and carried on before being subbed shortly afterwards so I think it's most likely deep bruising which can be bad.

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Really gutted about this, he was finally hitting form again and producing performances close to the title winning season and then he gets injured. Real shame. However, our best performance of the season came without him, the 4-1 v Rags. So we can cope.We'll obviously be a little more direct without him as no one else in our squad can do quite what he does.

I'm more worried though that it could have a knock on effect on Aguero's performances. Those two really do bring the best out of each other.

[Saul Goodman]

The only "good things" involved with this injury are:

1. Nasri seems to be a new player and in great form

Hopefully he can keep it up while Silva is out and can shoulder the burden on being the man responsible for pulling the strings in midfield

2. We've already qualified for the last 16 in the CL

3. Spain didnt call him up even though he's injured

I hate it when national teams call up injured players. All it does is jet lag them for their parent club