Vidic - How Injured Is He?

I aim to please, Anton.

Originally Posted by legendary saf

Hopefully it is just a nerve problem.

The fact that he travelled back with the team instead of being flown back home immediately or being sent to a Rome hospital suggest that it can't be severely serious

That's not true, unfortunately. Very often they have to wait a day or two for the initial swelling to go down before they do a scan, so there's no reason for him to go immediately to hospital or back home.

His knee can be replaced easily with another liquid metal one.

Amazingly interesting question here from me.

When Vidic went off, if it was you who was deciding who to bring on, would you have:

1. Brought Pique on as a straight swap

2. Brought O'Shea on as a straight swap

3. Moved Brown to centre-half and brought O'Shea on as right back

4. Moved Brown to centre-half and brought Hargreaves on as right back

5. Something I've not thought of

Originally Posted by Sparky6899

What you didn't see was the conversation he had with the physio on the touchline where he said "I have ruptured my fuel cell, I must self terminate."

That deserves more than it got initially.

Originally Posted by ScarFace

His knee can be replaced easily with another liquid metal one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ly7QJCT-qk

Originally Posted by poppy

Amazingly interesting question here from me.

When Vidic went off, if it was you who was deciding who to bring on, would you have:

1. Brought Pique on as a straight swap

2. Brought O'Shea on as a straight swap

3. Moved Brown to centre-half and brought O'Shea on as right back

4. Moved Brown to centre-half and brought Hargreaves on as right back

5. Something I've not thought of

The right decision was made.

Pique is very inexperienced at this level.

Brown was needed to negate the threat down their left.

Originally Posted by poppy

Amazingly interesting question here from me.

When Vidic went off, if it was you who was deciding who to bring on, would you have:

1. Brought Pique on as a straight swap

2. Brought O'Shea on as a straight swap

3. Moved Brown to centre-half and brought O'Shea on as right back

4. Moved Brown to centre-half and brought Hargreaves on as right back

5. Something I've not thought of

3. was the option that first occured to me, however, the right decision was made. Wes is settled at right back and moving him round could be detrimental to his performance, and big John is a center half anyway.