“It was a big shock for them on the last day,” he told the official Leeds United podcast [September 29, 11:21 min].
“Until the end, they really didn’t know what was going on. They sat in front of the TV and waited but they were really supportive and enthusiastic
Out of the question
Losing Siniterra to Bournemouth so late was a huge blow for Leeds, but at least they found a replacement for Anthony.
The Arsenal academy product has had to be patient since arriving at Elland Road, with three appearances from the bench.
Anthony made the most of his latest appearance by scoring Leeds’ final goal in their 3-0 win over Watford last weekend.
The goalkeeper, who made 29 appearances during his United career, has undergone an initial test to try to detect the severity of the injury, but will need another test next week. Therefore, it is still unclear how long the former Nottingham Forest loanee will be absent.
Speaking to the media at his pre-match press conference on Friday, Hodgson said:
“He’s been scanned. The initial scan results weren’t very positive, I’m sorry to say, but he’ll have another scan in a week and maybe we’ll get lucky and it will show some The damage was a little more than what we saw in the launch, but that doesn’t seem like good news. »
At the other end of the pitch, Palace will also face Frenchman Edouard, who continues to recover from a hamstring problem that ruled him out of London’s trip to Old Trafford earlier this week. . The former Celtic man has scored five goals this season and started every Premier League game so far, showing what a significant loss he is suffering. Hodgson added: “He only missed one game and that was in the Carabao Cup. “This is the first game he will miss.
“I don’t fear that he will start well or do what he did when he returned to the team, but unfortunately this game came a little early and we couldn’t risk reactivating his slight muscle injury. him and by extension that, that was the decision that we had to make.
“It’s a difficult decision when you need players, but I wouldn’t have forgiven myself if we’d thrown him into that game when he wasn’t 100 per cent ready, and then found out he was out of action. several matches due to muscle injury. that we can deal with now, suddenly becomes one of those injuries that keeps people out for up to a month.”
Elsewhere, Jefferson Lerma, Michael Olise and Matheus Franca remained on the sidelines.
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