Henri Lansbury- Scunthorpe 0 MK Dons 1
Henri picked up an ankle injury as Scunthorpe suffered a narrow defeat at home to MK Dons in League One.
Lansbury was withdrawn in the dying seconds, after Luke Chadwick opened the scoring for MK Dons.
Gary Hooper had an effort ruled out for offside and after the match, manager Neil Adkins spoke about the extent of Lansbury’s injury. “Henri’s twisted his ankle. He’s got a lot of ice on it at the moment while Joseph Mills has also picked up a knock.”
“We’ll analyse everything. I’ve got to make sure that we go into Tuesday night’s game full of energy, full of vigour and full of verve because we never had that against MK Dons on Saturday.”
The Iron are two points adrift of the play-off places but still have two games in hand.
Pedro Botelho- Salamanca 3 Alicante 1
Pedro racked up an assist in Salamanca’s 3-1 trouncing of Alicante.
Quique Martin opened the scoring on 11 minutes, with Miku doubling the lead on 69 minutes. Pedro turned provider in the dying moments as Miku got his second of the game.
Substitute Merino grabbed a late consolation for the visit0rs.
Paul Rodgers- Leyton Orient 1 Northampton 3
Paul set up a goal on his return from injury.
An own-goal from former Arsenal youngster Jason Crowe gave Orient the lead, but Northampton responded in spectacular fashion, with Adebayo Akinfenwa equalising for the Cobblers.
Aleksandar Prijovic then made it 2-1, with Rodgers laying the ball on for Ikechi Anya to score the final goal in stoppage time.
Rui Fonte- Crystal Palace 1 Derby 0
Rui started the game as Palace beat Derby 1-0 in a closely-fought encounter at Selhurst Park.
Palace had winger Victor Moses sent off for a second-bookable offence when he brought down Mile Sterjovski, but they persevered and took the lead after a superb lob by Shefki Kuqi.
Rui was withdrawn on 66 minutes after putting in a decent shift and watched from the bench as Palace survived a late scare which involved Derby’s Rob Hulse smashing the ball against the crossbar late on.
Havard Nordtveit-Lillestrom 1 Tromso 1
Havard played the whole 90 minutes at right-back as Lillestrom were held to a 1-1 draw by Tromso.
Kerrea Gilbert- Southend 0 Leicester 2
Kerrea missed out on Leicester’s promotion party with a dislocated shoulder.
The right-back is expected to be out for the rest of the season and is currently undergoing treatment at London Colney.
Something which might make him feel better is that he will recieve a League One winners medal after the Foxes wrapped up the title and promotion with a 2-0 win over Southend.
Rene Steer- Chesterfield 0 Gillingham 1
Rene was an un-used sub as he returned to the Gillingham squad for the narrow victory over Chesterfield.
Mark McCammon scored the only goal of the game.
Jay Simpson-Man.City v West Brom (Sun)
West Brom manager Tony Mowbray has revealed that he will not leave Jay out of the Baggies side despite the striker re-iterating that he will return to Arsenal at the end of the season.
Speaking earlier this week, Mowbray said: ”Does it (wanting to go back to Arsenal) make it any more difficult for him? No. Like with any player who comes on loan, we’re not the parent club.
“You utilise and use loan players as best you can for your club and nothing has changed as far as I am concerned with Jay Simpson.”
Hi Henri Lansbury seems to be playin well as a winger. Alot of scunny fans say hes the one of the best players in the league. What suprises me is that he looks more faster and powerful. He could be playing for our first team next season. Physically he looks strong look at the pic on the top.
I really think Nordveit should have stayed at in Spain. He came back early wasn’t allowed to play any reserve games for 2 or 3 months and is now plying his trade out of position back in Norway. Seems to be going nowhere fast. Do you think he has a future here Jeorge?
Nordtveit had a great game, and was by far the best player on his team who were overrun at times. His passin foot is simply fantastic! He has shownd it every game.
He also gets to play centrally, but right now his team lacks regular backs, so he is beeing played out.
Hi Jeorge, love the site.
Just wondering what you think about Rui Fonte. Im not sure if this is true, but based on the pictures of him that i’ve seen, he really hasn’t got the physical attributes some strikers have nowadays and does he have good enough skill to break into the first team?
Also, if Gibbs, Sagna and Clichy get injured (aswell as Gallas) do you think anyone from the Reserves would be good enough to be brought to the first team?
Fonte does need to strengthen up physically, but that will come with age. If all of those players that you mentioned got injured, then Song would go to centre-back. Jay Thomas is perhaps closest to the first-team defensively.
What about the left back position?