A truely shocking injury, reckless, late, accidental all words used to describe the tackle on one Eduardo Da Silva. The club (Arsenal F.C) did release a statement regarding the injury and what will happen from here.
The Club can confirm that following the incident during Saturday’s match at Birmingham City, Eduardo has fractured his left fibula and sustained an open dislocation of his ankle joint in the same leg.
He was immediately taken to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham where he underwent surgery on Saturday evening. The operation was successful and Eduardo was transferred to a London-based hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Earlier today (Monday 25th February), the Orthopaedic surgeon and Arsenal medical staff assessed the extent of the damage and possible time scale for a full recovery.
All being well, Eduardo will have his leg in plaster and using crutches for the next six to eight weeks. After that time, partial weight-bearing exercises will be scheduled into a slow rehabilitation process.
It is hoped that Eduardo will be running again in six months time and making a full recovery after nine months.
Eduardo will be released from hospital in a few days.
The Arsenal medical team would like to take this opportunity to thank Birmingham City FC for their assistance on the day as well as the surgical and ward staff on S2 at Selly Oak Hospital for their expert medical care.
In addition, and on behalf of Eduardo, the Club would like to thank everyone for their many touching messages of support.
Finally we do have some good news come out of this, unlike lots of hear say and rumors floating around for the past 48 hours. If you would like to pass on any messages to Eduardo you can do so via Arsenal.com and kudos to the fans holding up the Eduardo shirt. Everyone who is a fan of football, involved with the game etc wishes him a full recovery no player deserves this type of injury.
As for Taylor he has said sorry and of course is shook up which we can understand. I don’t hold a grudge against him and nor should anyone else, these injuries do happen in football. The ref did the right thing in sending him off, the man was shell shocked and couldn’t play with that hang over his shoulders. The tackle was reckless no doubt so once again all the best for Eduardo.
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