Swansea have confirmed that Neil Taylor suffered a fractured ankle in the 2-2 draw with Sunderland at the Liberty<\/p>\n
Taylor was stretchered off during the first half of the game following a challenge with Craig Gardner.<\/p>\n
And boss Michael Laudrup confirmed the fracture after the game when he said “I just talked to the doctor and we are still not 100% but there is a fracture, at least one.<\/p>\n
“We are talking about a long period of rehabilitation before he returns to the game, I can’t tell you precisely how long because I don’t know.<\/p>\n
“When you have injuries like that it is normally very violent, but this was not violent,” he added. “It was even a free-kick against us. Sometimes these injuries happen in strange ways, you don’t think anything is wrong and then there is ligament damage or something like that, it is very sad.<\/p>\n
“But you see things that are much more violent than that – this was not violent, it was unlucky.<\/p>\n
“He was very unlucky to fall in a bad way, you can’t blame the Sunderland player for that.”<\/p>\n
Sunderland boss Martin O’Neill echoed Laudrup’s sentiments and said he felt sympathy for Gardner following the home support’s angry reaction to the incident.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know why they thought that (it was a bad tackle by Gardner). He was trying to go past and the young lad has made a foul and it’s very sad he has broken his ankle.<\/p>\n
“But I think the crowd were laying into him and he was surprised by that and he came over to me to say he didn’t do it.<\/p>\n
“He was startled and he came over to tell me. We even had the free-kick, but Taylor is a very decent player and it is sad he is injured.”<\/p>\n
Gardner himself tweeted: “Hope Taylor is ok I never touched him but not a nice sight when a fellow professional goes off on a stretcher.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Swansea have confirmed that Neil Taylor suffered a fractured ankle in the 2-2 draw with Sunderland at the Liberty Taylor was stretchered off during the first half of the game following a challenge with Craig Gardner. And boss Michael Laudrup confirmed the fracture after the game when he said “I just talked to the doctor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n