{"id":393484,"date":"2018-01-21T07:45:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T07:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393484"},"modified":"2018-01-21T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T07:45:03","slug":"james-mccarthy-suffers-double-leg-break-everton-draw-west-brom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/james-mccarthy-suffers-double-leg-break-everton-draw-west-brom\/","title":{"rendered":"James McCarthy suffers double leg break in Everton draw with West Brom"},"content":{"rendered":"
Everton midfielder James McCarthy will miss the rest of the season after suffering a double leg fracture in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with West Brom.<\/p>\n
The 27-year-old was taken off on a stretcher after a tackle on Albion’s Salomon Rondon in the second half.<\/p>\n
“It’s a tibia and fibula fracture compounded. A very nasty injury,” said Everton boss Sam Allardyce.<\/p>\n
Rondon was distraught after seeing the injury to McCarthy, who hurt himself as he prevented the forward from shooting.<\/p>\n
Neither player was at fault in what was an accidental collision.<\/p>\n
Republic of Ireland international McCarthy had returned from an injury lay-off at the end of December and this was only his third league game of the season.<\/p>\n
“We had just worked hard to get him back to fitness. It’s a loss to us until the end of the season – it happens in the game of football but not often that severe,” added Allardyce.<\/p>\n
Striker Rondon was “absolutely devastated” by McCarthy’s injury.<\/p>\n
“I feel really sorry for James,” the Venezuela international said.<\/p>\n
“Even if the move had resulted in a goal, I would have preferred not to score if it meant an opponent avoided suffering such a terrible injury.<\/p>\n
“I wish James a speedy recovery and hope to see him back playing again soon.”<\/p>\n
Describing Rondon’s emotional reaction to the injury, Albion boss Alan Pardew said: “I saw his reaction straight away. He must’ve heard something – sometimes it does really affect you and it did it take us a while to get him round and focused again.<\/p>\n
“Our thoughts go with James and we wish a speedy recovery to him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everton midfielder James McCarthy will miss the rest of the season after suffering a double leg fracture in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with West Brom. The 27-year-old was taken off on a stretcher after a tackle on Albion’s Salomon Rondon in the second half. “It’s a tibia and fibula fracture compounded. A very nasty injury,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":393488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[6215,16313,16312],"yoast_head":"\n