Jack Grealish has revealed he suffered an injury that Manchester City doctor described as ‘worst he’s ever seen’.
So far in the 23/24 season, Grealish has only made eight appearances across competitions and is yet to find the back of the net.
Back in August, after City’s narrow 2-1 win over Sheffield United, Grealish was sidelined for weeks after suffering an injury.
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Speaking recently about the injury, Grealish revealed he couldn’t walk due to the pain.
As per the Daily Mail, the 28-year-old said: “I’ve had so many dead legs over the years and I am usually good at taking them, taking the hits and stuff.
“You have little ones that are there for two to three days — but if you get a dead leg and you have the haematoma (a bleeding outside the blood vessels), a bad one, it’s around six centimetres (two-and-a-half inches).
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“Mine was like 20 centimetres. Our doctor (Max Sala) said it’s the worst dead leg he’s ever seen, by a mile.”
Grealish continued: “It wasn’t even bad, the tackle. It was Oli McBurnie. If I showed you the tackle now, you’d be like, ‘Get up’. But the pain…honestly! After the game it was sore. But when I was on the coach, I was like, ‘I need something here’.
“I went to walk off the coach back into the training ground at City and I genuinely could not walk. I couldn’t bend my leg. I had to get crutches.
“It was the worst pain ever. I was going into City every day. I was in for 14 days in a row because you need to keep it moving. Five weeks later, it’s all right.”
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Grealish was an unused substitute for City’s 1-0 defeat against Arsenal last week.
After the match, the midfielder was asked whether this was a crisis for City after two Premier League defeats in a row.
He said: “No. Come on! No chance. Obviously I’ve never lost two games in a row for City before, but it's nowhere near a crisis.”
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