West Ham United manager David Moyes has said that goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was taken off as a precaution during the Hammers’ 1-0 defeat to Manchester United.
The Polish goalkeeper rushed out to make a headed clearance as Christian Eriksen bared down on goal in the first half, with Fabianski winning the ball but landing awkwardly minutes before Marcus Rashford headed in the only goal of the game.
Asked if he felt the play should have stopped with Eriksen offside earlier that would have prevented Fabianski rushing out and ending up injured, Moyes said that he did not think it was necessarily directly because of not stopping play soon enough, but did say that the Hammers took off the former Arsenal goalkeeper as a precaution.
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“I don’t know if that was it, but I just know that he’s got a sore knee,” said Moyes. “He’s hurt his knee and we knew we weren’t going to take the chance at half-time.
“I don’t know [the severity], they just told me that his knee sort of went back and I think the footage shows it as far as I know. I think it was just a wee bit of a jar of the knee.”
While Fabianski was forced off in the game injured, centre-back Craig Dawson and winger Jarrod Bowen both returned from respective dead leg and ankle injuries and played the duration of the narrow defeat.
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