‘Catastrophic’ scenes as Mary Fowler goes down with a knee damage in huge match: ‘It does not look nice’

Manchester Metropolis say they’re ‘not fearing the worst’ after Mary Fowler suffered a knee damage of their Ladies’s FA Cup semi-final defeat by neighbours Manchester United.

The Matildas star limped out of the derby tie inside simply the primary 20 minutes of Metropolis’s 2-0 house defeat after requiring a number of minutes of remedy on the Joie Stadium pitch after she appeared to wrench her proper knee whereas overstretching for the ball.

With anxiousness clear on the Metropolis bench that includes gamers who’ve suffered severe ACL accidents up to now, interim supervisor Nick Cushing reported after the sport: ‘It does not look nice imminently.

‘To lose Mary Fowler in an essential sport at an early stage, and to lose a objective, was catastrophic.

‘It’s her knee. I do not wish to speculate, however we’re not fearing the worst.’

There had earlier been apparent concern from the Metropolis medics earlier than the grimacing 22-year-old was capable of get again to her toes and, briefly, it appeared as if she felt she would possibly be capable of get again into the motion.

However she needed to be substituted within the twenty fourth minute by Naomi Layzell, and will then solely watch on the bench as her dream of any English silverware this season died following their League Cup last defeat and Champions League exits by the hands of Chelsea.

Fowler was nonetheless being handled when the already injury-depleted Metropolis went 2-0 all the way down to United within the twenty second minute, with Grace Clinton including to the lead they’d been given by an excellent strike from Celin Bizet after simply six minutes.

It was a dispiriting finish to what had been an one other spectacular week for Fowler when she netted for the Matildas again house of their win over South Korea earlier than jetting again for Metropolis’s huge sport.

For Metropolis, Fowler has been a key artistic spark all season, particularly whereas a sequence of accidents have been afflicting a few of their different stars, like Khadija Shaw, Lauren Hemp and Vivianne Miedema.

Metropolis’s defeat ended any prospect of Australia’s two premier girls’s gamers going head-to-head within the Cup last at Wembley in Might, with Sam Kerr’s Chelsea having reached the ultimate with a 2-1 win over Liverpool on Saturday.

Kerr herself faces a race towards time to characteristic within the last as Chelsea have reported she’s nonetheless ‘just a few weeks away’ from getting again into motion after her personal long-standing ACL damage.

Holders United, although, look set to supply an enormous problem to the English champions Chelsea after reaching their third last in a row.