By CHIEW ZHI WEY
KAMPAR, March 15, 2011: Manchester United (MU) managed to pick three pointsin the advanced phase match Champions League Group C on Tuesday (03/11/2010). Unfortunately, MU victory party disrupted by injury winger, Nani.
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Nani’s leg was hit by Jamie Carragher on the game. |
The massive match between Liverpool and Manchester United at Anfield, Jamie Carragher committed a high tackle against Nani in the 44th minute that resulted in the Portuguese player going to ground and Carragher being awarded a yellow card.
Nani was injured and unable to continue the match. He kept holding his left knee as he groaned in pain, the MU’s medical team rush to checks off the pitch. Hence, the Portuguese player had to be pulled out and replaced by Park Ji-Sung.
After the game, Carragher straight went to MU players’ room and apologize to Nani.
Nevertheless, Nani refused to accept Jamie Carragher's apology for the tackle which he feared had ended his season at Anfield because it was the second bad challenge from the Liverpool defender in as many seasons.
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Nani was sending to hospital by pramedics immediately. |
'He had received treatment, he is tough enough but could not participate to the training recently,' said Sir Alex Ferguson.
However, a successful attempt to stitch the wound appears to have speeded up the healing process dramatically.
"Thank you for all the support and consolation, I wish I could go back in time to recover quickly," said Nani.
According Poh Chuan, student from Business Admin said that, “we cannot avoid be injured during sport, this is normal for athlete.” He thinks that Nani should accept Carragher’s apologize.