Former A-League prodigy Kusini Yengi’s shiny begin life with English membership Portsmouth has been soured by an ankle harm that’s set to sideline him for as much as eight weeks.
Yengi, who joined the English League One outfit from Western Sydney Wanderers in July, scored 4 objectives in his first three appearances in all competitions for his new membership.
However, a coaching mishap by which a teammate fell on him throughout a deal with, is more likely to hold the 24-year-old striker on the injured record till the center of October.
In some good news for Yengi, his ankle was not fractured – as was first feared – within the deal with, easing preliminary issues that he may very well be sidelined for as much as 4 months.
‘We initially thought there was a fracture, so we protected him with a boot and he limped off for an X-ray and an MRI scan,” Portsmouth manager John Mousinho told The News.
“If it was a fracture we could have been looking at 14-16 weeks out and that is what we were trying to project against. It could have been much worse.
‘It’s nonetheless an actual blow to the whole lot now we have been attempting to construct over the previous couple of weeks, however … it may have been quite a bit worse.”
Yengi, who made an instantaneous impression for Adelaide United when making his A-League debut in 2020 earlier than shifting to the Wanderers in 2022, described the ligament harm as a “minor setback”.
“I’ll be back better than ever,” the previous Australian under-23 consultant posted on social media platform X (previously Twitter).
Source: www.news.com.au
