Manchester Metropolis interim head coach Nick Cushing confirmed his facet will probably be with out the ahead duo of Khadija “Bunny” Shaw and Aoba Fujino for his or her Ladies’s Champions League quarter-final first leg towards Chelsea.
Cushing stated that each gamers had sustained muscle accidents.
The pair mixed for Metropolis’s solely aim of their 2-1 defeat to Chelsea within the League Cup remaining on Saturday and each had been substituted within the 81st minute, with Cushing later saying that Shaw had left the pitch feeling her hamstring.
Metropolis’s assembly with Chelsea in Manchester on Wednesday will probably be their second of 4 consecutive conferences and Cushing informed reporters on Tuesday that it’ll take a “few days to diagnose how lengthy” Shaw and Fujino will probably be out for.
“Bunny Shaw got here out, and she or he will probably be unavailable,” stated Cushing. “Aoba is unavailable too.
“They’re two important gamers which might be lacking [but] these moments give alternatives for different gamers.
“Each of them are muscle accidents. It’s going to take a number of days to diagnose how lengthy. I believe they’re important, however will go away it with the medical workforce.
“When you may have muscle accidents, it’s finally not one you’ll flip round rapidly.”
The absences go away Metropolis with out two choices in assault, and with out Shaw’s aim menace. The Jamaica worldwide has scored 19 targets in all competitions this season, together with 5 in her final six appearances.
Each Metropolis and Chelsea wish to win the Ladies’s Champions League for the primary time in membership historical past.
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