Some Newcastle fans have expressed their concern after defender DeAndre Yedlin suffered an apparent knee injury in their opening game against Tottenham.
The full-back was challenging for a bouncing ball in the corner of the pitch when he landed awkwardly on his knee and was in some distress for several minutes.
90+1' – Yedlin tumbles to the ground after trying to keep a searching Lascelles ball in play. After a stoppage, the injury forces the American to leave the pitch. 1-2. #NUFC
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) August 11, 2018
He was eventually helped off the pitch, and with the Toon having already made three substitutions in the game, Rafael Benitez side were down to 10 men for the closing stages, which restricted their opportunities to score.
In the end, Spurs ran out 2-1 winners at St. James Park, with Dele Alli getting the winning goal in the first-half.
One Toon fan said he hoped it wasn’t that serious.
This is Futbol have rounded up the best tweets from a section of Newcastle fans on the injury to Yedlin:
Yedlin goes of the pitch for treatment. Hope it’s not that serious! #NEWTOT #NUFC #HWTL
— ToonArmy (@toonarmy_com) August 11, 2018
https://twitter.com/FordeHaveMercy/status/1028270669144969216
Rondon, Muto and Fernandez to start next week. Don’t take Ritchie off for Atsu. We will improve but the Yedlin injury worries me. #nufc
— Bobby Norris (@wonderbonzi) August 11, 2018
Unlikely today – we’ll play worse & win this season. Yedlin injury is a disaster though…..#nufc
— Dave Parish (@paz_parish) August 11, 2018
Only caught second half. Decent performance. Injury to Yedlin a huge huge worry. Lack of spending already coming to fruition #NUFC
— SRELLAIN (@SRELLAIN) August 11, 2018
Yedlin getting hurt made an otherwise decent looking start feel so terrible #nufc
— Nicholas (@CAAARRLL89) August 11, 2018
Our lack of full backs is gonna be a right ball ache this season. Did not look good for Yedlin at all #NUFC
— Stuart Herd (@Stuart_Herd) August 11, 2018
OPINION
This is what happens when you don’t strengthen the squad enough in the summer transfer window. Mike Ashley was reluctant to splash the cash this summer and they left themselves open to being left short should any injury happen, and that is exactly what’s happened in their opening league game of the season. DeAndre Yedlin was challenging for a bouncing ball like any player would do, and was so unlucky to land in a peculiar way on his knee, with the initial replays suggesting that it doesn’t look good for the American defender. That leaves the team really short in the full-back area now, with now only Javier Manquillo, Paul Dummett and the out of favour