Micah Richards gutted with Leeds United injuries to Stuart Dallas and Liam Cooper live on BBC
Micah Richards has insisted that Liam Cooper and Stuart Dallas picking up injuries is a “massive” blow for Leeds United.
The skipper limped out of the warm-up against Manchester City before the latter fractured his femur in the opening 45 minutes.
With one, if not both potentially ruled out now, Richards worried given how the Whites have fallen into their old ways of conceding too easily.
Speaking live on BBC Monday Night Club [02 May, 33:00], Richards picked out the news that has left many gutted.
“Cooper being out is massive for them,” he said. “While they’ve conceded the most, when you’re going up against Man City, especially from set-pieces, if they pick you apart you hold your hands up.
“Dallas as well is a massive, massive miss, he can play in any position. They’ve sort of fallen into their old traps a little bit. I just don’t like how they’re conceding goals, it’s too easy at the moment.”
Gutting.
We still can’t believe our luck.
Honestly, how on earth are we still picking up these types of injuries? This squad has been riddled with bad luck and it doesn’t look like ending.
We have no had injuries or absences to every single one of our key players, and you give yourself little to no chance of Premier League safety should that happen.
Everyone keeps scratching their heads and taking at Leeds for being in this predicament, but no one has had to deal with this many problems to key, key players.
Everton have also had their problems, but injuries to the likes of Andre Gomes, Fabian Delph and Tom Davies come nowhere near compared to Kalvin Phillips and Dallas.
The available squad of players have got to use these blows as motivation though, and see it as a chance to survive the drop for Dallas and others.
Fingers crossed, we can pull through.
In other Leeds United news, the Whites are leading the race to complete a major signing and have already opened talks to seal a £25m deal