Vivianne Miedema has been nominated for the Barclay’s WSL Player of the Month Award for December, but the recognition arrives as a cruel irony, with the Arsenal striker rupturing her anterior cruciate ligament in the Gunner’s penultimate match of 2022.
Miedema was stretchered off in tears in her team's Champions League group stage clash with Lyon and announced afterwards that the ACL injury would preclude the Dutch star from playing in the Women’s World Cup this summer in Australia and New Zealand.
The injury is the second of its kind to afflict Jonas Eidevall’s squad, with England forward and Miedema's off-field partner Beth Mead suffering the same injury a month prior. Both are expected to be out for extended periods, exacerbating an already injury-riddled squad.
