Manchester City’s Aymeric Laporte suffers nasty head injury just eight days before the World Cup
Manchester City’s Aymeric Laporte suffers nasty head injury against Brentford after being caught by Ethan Pinnock’s accidental elbow – with blood streaming from defender’s head just eight days before the World Cup
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Aymeric Laporte has picked up a painful-looking head injury just eight days before the World Cup.
The Manchester City star, playing against Brentford in the Premier League‘s early kick-off on Saturday afternoon, was left bleeding on the floor after an accidental elbow to his face.
Laporte received treatment on the pitch and eventually played on – but could be sweating over his World Cup place with Spain, given the possibility head injury symptoms can present themselves later on.
Aymeric Laporte has suffered a nasty head injury just eight days before the World Cup starts
Man City’s Laporte was left bleeding after an accidental elbow from Brentford’s Ethan Pinnock
City manager Pep Guardiola (left) looked concerned after the incident on Saturday afternoon
From a Brentford corner, unsighted Bees defender Ethan Pinnock accidentally saw his elbow collide with Laporte, who was jumping behind him.
Referee Peter Bankes stopped the game, allowing City physios to race onto the pitch and deal with the 28-year-old, who had blood streaming from a nasty gash.
After glue was applied to the cut, Laporte grimaced in pain as his head was bandaged up tightly, Terry Butcher-style.
Laporte was bandaged up by the medical team and eventually played on after seven minutes
Spain boss Luis Enrique (pictured) will hope there are no lasting effects for the centre back
Laporte eventually came back onto the pitch seven minutes later, before making a brilliant sliding clearance in the penalty area to deny Ivan Toney an open goal.
The left-sided centre back was born in France and represented the country at age-grade level but started representing Spain in 2021 and was named in Luis Enrique’s official squad for the Qatar tournament.
Laporte, capped 15 times by La Roja, will hope to recover in time to be involved in his country’s competition opener against Costa Rica on November 23.
