Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva suffered an horrific broken leg in the opening minutes of the Premier League clash with Birmingham.
The Croatia international was challenged by Birmingham's Martin Taylor in the third minute of the game at St Andrews with the centre-back being shown an immediate red card by referee Mike Dean.
Eduardo's clearly distressed team-mates immediately signalled to the sidelines that urgent attention was required and the game was held up for seven minutes as he received treatment on the field.
The injury was deemed to be so serious that replays of the incident were not shown on television.
Photographs of the challenge and the immediate aftermath suggest the injury is similar to the break suffered by Manchester United forward Alan Smith during their FA Cup defeat at Liverpool in 2006.
Eduardo is now facing a lengthy spell on the sidelines and is certain to miss the remainder of this campaign and Croatia's Euro 2008 challenge in the summer.
After being stretchered off the field, he was immediately taken to hospital for further treatment.
The Brazil-born striker moved to Emirates Stadium from Dinamo Zagreb last summer and had scored 12 goals in his first 30 appearances for Arsene Wenger's side.
Woah so sad, can't take part in Ucl and Euro already..
must punish birmingham
Get well soon.
Originally posted by sand king:Get well soon.
dun tink it will b any soon... hope he can be back 100%...
Originally posted by sand king:Get well soon.
y r u here? gloating abt us?
get well soon! sad dat his euro dream is shattered.
Originally posted by BrUtUs:
dun tink it will b any soon... hope he can be back 100%...
Yea, i can remember that time alan smith broke his leg.... ouch.
I hope this isnt the end of his career.
Originally posted by sand king:Yea, i can remember that time alan smith broke his leg.... ouch.
I hope this isnt the end of his career.
yup hope so... but highly likely wenger need to buy another striker...
Originally posted by BrUtUs:yup hope so... but highly likely wenger need to buy another striker...
Yupps, I wonder who.... RVP still hasn't recovered from that broken foot suffered from celebrating his goal?
What do you think? Was taylor aiming at eduardo's leg or the ball?
Originally posted by sand king:
Yupps, I wonder who.... RVP still hasn't recovered from that broken foot suffered from celebrating his goal?
No he recovered from that actually. He still hast really shaken off tt knee injury that struck him when he was playing for Holland
Although I am a Man Utd fan my heart really goes out to Eduardo. That's a horrible injury he never deserved! I hope he can get back to 100% again.
dudu jia you!
Originally posted by felirox:No he recovered from that actually. He still hast really shaken off tt knee injury that struck him when he was playing for Holland
Oh no wonder. I hope he doenst stay out too long, i used to like RVP... as in a player haha
I dun think any players have any ill intentions to injure another player so seriously.
But, after seeing the shots and the photos, I guess the arsenal striker would take a long time to come back.
Hope he take care and recover fast like Cisse.
Dudu's bday is tmr. How sad is this. Have to celebrate your bday in the hospital with a broken ankle.
pity him
sad sia when i saw tat
fuck the taylor, beat his mother , burn his hse
My condolences to Eduardo.. Hope he gets well soon =( But shiet happens in football, taylor didn't want it.. =( Get well soon Eduardo.. =(
Originally posted by dinky1409:My condolences to Eduardo.. Hope he gets well soon =( But shiet happens in football, taylor didn't want it.. =( Get well soon Eduardo.. =(
i tried to be more subjective.
but i just cant believe that it was an accident; esp after those photos of that fker laughing.
Originally posted by xopa:i tried to be more subjective.
but i just cant believe that it was an accident; esp after those photos of that fker laughing.
I think Taylor didnt laugh la. He was more of stunned and disgusted. But Taylor is still a puny cunt. Havent come out and say sorry
tell me if that's not a huge grin on his face.
but i may be less pissed if he had came out to say smth.