Burnley have suffered a “huge damage” to a first-team participant forward of their Championship conflict with Leeds United, supervisor Scott Parker has confirmed.
Burnley face big Leeds conflict
The Clarets return to league motion with a high-profile assembly with Leeds on Saturday lunchtime, in what guarantees to be a testing sport off the again of the worldwide break.
Burnley have been among the many main candidates to safe promotion to the Premier League initially of the season, and the early indicators recommend that they might be proper within the combine. Parker’s aspect are sixth within the desk after 4 matches, and whereas factors have been dropped twice, it could be a shock in the event that they weren’t a minimum of in and across the playoff positions all through the marketing campaign.
As for Leeds, they’re one level and two locations forward of the Clarets in fourth, though Daniel Farke has discovered himself underneath strain at instances. Saturday’s conflict at Elland Street might inform us much more about each groups, with an away win at a frightening floor performing as an actual sign of intent by Burnley.
Parker has been handed an damage blow within the lead-up to the weekend motion, nevertheless, with one essential participant set for a prolonged interval on the sidelines.
Parker confirms “huge damage” to Burnley ace
Talking forward of the Leeds sport, with quotes supplied by The Burnley Categorical, Parker confirmed that Manuel Benson will not be accessible after selecting up a “huge damage”, with “months” on the sidelines wanting potential:
“Benny has acquired a little bit of an enormous damage, so he received’t be round for a variety of weeks, possibly months. That’s the massive disappointment from the [Blackburn] sport concerning Benny in that sense, having come on, however hopefully he can get well as rapidly as potential however we received’t be seeing him for a short time. It’s his calf/his achilles. We’ve clearly scanned him and there’s clearly an issue there. He’s going to want time now to get well and get it proper to re-boot him up and get him prepared for when he’s match.”
Benson will not be one of many first names on Parker’s staff sheet, being restricted to 10 minutes of Championship motion to this point this season, however shedding him for such an prolonged time period is way from supreme.
Squad depth is so important within the Championship, given the relentless nature of the fixture schedule, so out of the blue not having the 27-year-old to name upon for a lot of the rest of the yr is not supreme.
Benson has finished effectively in a Burnley shirt since arriving from Royal Antwerp in 2022, scoring 13 objectives in 47 appearances, whereas Sam Parkin has hailed him as “electrical” previously, highlighting what an enormous miss he’s going to be.
Hopefully, the Clarets will cope with out him, nonetheless sitting fairly close to the highest of the Championship desk upon his return, earlier than he has a huge impact later within the season.
