Wayne Rooney was last night undergoing healing tests to discern the earnest of an repairs that is melancholy to finish the majority inclusive deteriorate of his career.
The Premier League"s heading scorer and overwhelming preference for footballer of the year had to be helped from the representation with suspected ankle vinculum repairs on a dire night for Manchester United during that they threw afar a one-goal lead to lose 2-1 in the initial leg of their Champions League quarter-final opposite Bayern Munich.
Rooney left the Allianz Arena on crutches, with his right feet in a protecting boot, and will have a sanatorium indicate currently among concerns that he could be confronting a probable six-week lay-off, commencement with Saturday"s consequential joining compare with associate pretension contenders Chelsea. His manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, pronounced he did not think the repairs was "terribly serious" and allayed fears that it could be the fourth time Rooney had damaged a metatarsal in 6 years.
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But Ferguson additionally concurred that it might be bad news. "It"s as well early right afar to know for sure," he said. "He has harm his ankle and we"ll have to wait for and see. I can"t answer how prolonged it will be. He is being treated with colour with colour by the medics and we will see what he"s similar to tomorrow."
Rooney was harmed in the rave to Ivica Olic"s winning idea 3 and a half mins in to blocking time on a night in that the England striker non-stop the scoring usually for Bayern to spin the compare upside down and leave an indignant Ferguson castigating the approach his group had "caused the own defeat".
Mario Gómez, the Bayern substitute, incidentally trod on Rooney"s feet and the United player rught afar pulled away, crumpling to the building in viewable trouble and rambling his ankle as he fell. He had to be helped off the representation by 3 members of United"s backroom staff, incompetent to put any weight on his harmed foot.
Ferguson was reluctant to answer any some-more questions but Rooney will roughly positively miss the Chelsea diversion as well as the second leg of the Bayern compare subsequent Wednesday. The bigger fright for United, though, is that it could be some-more similar to 4 to 6 weeks and the intensity earnest of the impulse was summed up by the Bayern coach, Louis outpost Gaal. "He is their majority critical player," he said.
"Just see at the statistics. Rooney is their tip scorer with 34 goals. Dimitar Berbatov has twelve goals but until this week finish their second-highest scorer was the opposition, with eleven own goals. That"s how critical Rooney is to them. But I wouldn"t instruct an repairs on anyone."
Rooney had scored inside the opening dual mins but Ferguson would after protest that "we were giving the round afar from notation one" and he was indignant by the inlet of Bayern"s goals.
The initial stemmed from a unnecessary sport by Gary Neville, permitting the France brazen Franck Ribéry to measure with a free-kick that deflected in off Rooney. Then, with probably the last conflict of the game, Olic loser Patrice Evra inside the chastisement area to squirm free and put in thewinner.
"The initial idea was a bit of luck," Ferguson said, "but the last idea ... how can I report it? The diversion was done. That was a distressing goal. There was a lot of difficulty behind there [in defence]. Patrice got the round held underneath his feet and was a bit detrimental but it wasn"t a great idea to concede, that"s for sure.
"But we kept giving it afar all night and we caused the own improved in the end. We can"t protest about the result. Give them [Bayern] credit since they pulpy the round everywhere but we are improved than that in possession. It only was not great enough.
"We had chances to kill the tie [with the measure at 1-0] but that would have been propitious for us since [Edwin] outpost der Sar time and again was creation illusory saves to keepus in the match. Bayern were the most appropriate team."
Van Gaal, nonetheless, confirmed that United should be still regarded as the favourites to reach the semi-finals. "I think United have a really great possibility since of the afar goal. I longed for to win 1-0 or get a 0-0. 2-1 isn"t the most appropriate outcome but we have regularly scored in the Champions League games this deteriorate and have a scored a lot afar from home so we can have a lot of confidence."
The afar idea additionally gave Ferguson encouragement, but United"s physical education instructor was visibly indignant on a night that finished with the tests on Rooney"s ankle being behind by Uefa selecting him for their pointless drug-testing procedure. "Old Trafford is a opposite game," Ferguson said. "We will be most better, no disbelief about that. We won"t be giving afar the round as most as we did here. We have the afar idea and that"s an advantage."
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