Just three minutes into the clash at St James’ Park, Ederson collided with Sean Longstaff and Kyle Walker and went off in considerable pain shortly after
Ederson sustained a serious-looking injury during the opening eight minutes of Manchester City’s Premier League clash with Newcastle United.
Ederson lost part of his thigh skin after a collision with Kyle Walker
Ederson appeared to be in serious discomfort as he left the field
Ederson had to be replaced by Stefan Ortega after just eight minutes
The goalkeeper went to try and prevent what he believed to be a scoring chance for Sean Longstaff in the third minute and was involved in a collision with both the Magpies’ player and his own defender Kyle Walker.
Ederson went down and received treatment before attempting to continue, but was in obvious discomfort from his first touch which almost resulted in a Newcastle chance, and went down again.
In the eighth minute, the Brazilian goalkeeper was forced to leave the field and replaced with Stefan Ortega.
It was a blow for Pep Guardiola’s side, especially when the flag went up immediately after Longstaff put the ball in the back of the net, re-raising the question over whether assistant referees should allow play to continue when they know there has been an offside.
Guardiola was left frustrated that the flag stayed down despite Alexander Isak being ahead of the last man in the build-up, because if play was stopped when the offside occurred, Ederson would not have picked up the injury.
‘Teams like Spurs or Liverpool or Aston Villa or ourselves, we play high line,’ Guardiola told the BBC after his team won at St James’ Park.
‘There were three players offside, so you have to avoid that. They should review it.’
It is the second injury sustained by Man City in those sort of circumstances this season after the one suffered by John Stones earlier in the campaign.
Ederson limped off and up the stairs in obvious discomfort but the extent of the problem is not yet known.
Guardiola said after the match when asked about the injury: “He has a big knock, I didn’t speak to the doctor. But just a knock, he will be fine as he doesn’t play for 10 days.”
Manchester City have a number of players out through injury already including the aforementioned Stones and Erling Haaland, who is not expected to return before the end of January. Kevin de Bruyne has recently returned to City’s matchday squad after an injury lay-off of his own, however.
