Ribery could be out for season

http://www.espnstar.com/servlet/file/564438_33_preview.jpg?ITEM_ENT_ID=564438&ITEM_VERSION=2&COLLSPEC_ENT_ID=10&FILE_SERVICE_CONF_ID=33

The season may already be over for Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery.

He lasted only 17 minutes of their Bundesliga fixture at Wolfsburg on Saturday.

The Frenchman was in agony with a knee injury which curtailed his first match of 2011 and he now faces an anxious wait to discover how serious the blow is.

He is due to undergo tests in Munich with suggestions that he may have torn his cruciate ligaments.

"We have got to wait and see," said coach Louis van Gaal after the game. "We will find out either on Sunday or Monday."

Ribery's season has barely got off the ground.

He was sidelined until November due to an ankle injury and now faces the prospect of another lengthy lay-off, although at least his injury-enforced substitution led to Arjen Robben's comeback after six months out.

0 comments: