Yoane Wissa injury will ‘leave big hole’ in Brentford team, admits Thomas Frank

Yoane Wissa is acceptable to miss ‘a mates of months’ aft picking up an ankle wounded successful Brentford’s decision astatine Manchester City connected Saturday.

The guardant scored the opening extremity of the crippled for the Bees earlier Erling Haaland netted doubly to springiness the Premier League champions a 2-1 win.

However, helium went down nether a truly mediocre situation from Mateo Kovacic soon earlier the half-time break, for which the Croatian was shown a yellowish card.

Wissa was taken disconnected astatine half-time and volition not beryllium seen for a while, arsenic confirmed by Brentford brag Thomas Frank.

‘Wissa is, unfortunately, not bully news: it looks similar an wounded that volition beryllium a mates of months,’ Frank told the club’s authoritative website.

‘It’s precise frustrating. We talked astir our galore injuries past year, I anticipation I don’t person to speech excessively overmuch astir it this year, I possibly already have.

‘We were unlucky with Igor [Thiago], unlucky with [Aaron] Hickey; we’ve past had 2 interaction injuries with Mathias Jensen and Yoane Wissa, truthful that’s precise frustrating. But that’s portion of football, we determination on, and we volition find solutions.’

‘It volition permission a large hole. Everybody was saying we bought Igor Thiago to regenerate Ivan [Toney] – but we inactive had Wissa; we bought Igor Thiago to physique the squad and supply contention successful the squad.’

Thiago arrived from Club Brugge implicit the summertime arsenic Brentford’s large signing but has been sidelined until precocious 2024 owed to a superior genu injury.

Toney has since moved to the Saudi Pro League and present Wissa’s wounded leaves the Bees abbreviated up beforehand and is particularly disappointing fixed the DR Congo planetary had been successful bully form, scoring 3 goals successful conscionable 4 games.

‘Wissa had a precise bully play past twelvemonth and I thought helium has started the play precise good this year, with 3 goals successful 4 games, that’s a precise bully number,’ said Frank.

‘He’s conscionable been precise important for america and that’s going to permission a hole. But, again, I volition find a solution.’

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