Manchester City Nick Cushing boss expects Vivianne Miedema The rest of the season by injuries.
Miedema left with a problem with hamstring Netherlands‘Nations League’s clash against Austria At the beginning of this week. Dutch national coach Andreas Jonker said after the match that he was “extremely disappointed” about her injury and did not assume a quick return to the action.
Cushing shared Jonker’s pessimism about Miedemy injury.
“We have lost VIV and that is something the medical team is doing. It is positive, but it doesn’t look good in the sense that one of our games can be influenced immediately,” he said at a press conference on Friday.
“It is an extremely disappointment for VIV because of the role she played on the pitch, and for me personally, because she was so key in the results I got with this team.
“She played a huge role in the campaign of this team and today she did the same in the meeting room and on the training ground.
“Now it is positive and focuses on rehabilitation and we will give it all the support she needs to return there as quickly as possible.”
In the last few years, Miadema has tolerated a stormy time with injury. After suffering an injury to the anterior crossed ligament, she missed considerable pieces of the seasons 2022-23 and 2023-24 Arsenal in December 2022. Her return to action was not smooth, with 28 -year -old undergoing a smaller knee surgery In March 2024.
An attacker who joined the city in the summer at a free transfer he had missed three months of the season After the operation in October last year for knee injury.
The latest obstacle to Miedema comes just at a time when she began to hit her step in the city – in March she won the Player of the Month Award for six wiring in the goal, including a strut against Chelsea In the first stage of the Champions League quarterfinals.
In an unfortunate game against Austria, she also got to Scoressheet in the Netherlands and now facing the race to get this summer for the women’s euros this summer.
Information from ESPN Netherlands contributed to this report.
