Yoane Wissa is set to miss ‘a couple of months’ after picking up an ankle injury in Brentford’s defeat at Manchester City on Saturday.
The forward scored the opening goal of the game for the Bees before Erling Haaland netted twice to give the Premier League champions a 2-1 win.
However, he went down under a really poor challenge from Mateo Kovacic shortly before the half-time break, for which the Croatian was shown a yellow card.
Wissa was taken off at half-time and will not be seen for a while, as confirmed by Brentford boss Thomas Frank.
‘It’s very frustrating. We talked about our many injuries last year, I hope I don’t have to talk too much about it this year, I maybe already have.
‘We were unlucky with Igor [Thiago], unlucky with [Aaron] Hickey; we’ve then had two contact injuries with Mathias Jensen and Yoane Wissa, so that’s very frustrating. But that’s part of football, we move on, and we will find solutions.’
‘It will leave a big hole. Everybody was saying we bought Igor Thiago to replace Ivan [Toney] – but we still had Wissa; we bought Igor Thiago to build the squad and provide competition in the squad.’