MANCHESTER, England, CMC – Manchester Metropolis will probably be with out star ahead Khadija Shaw and Aoba Fujino for the primary leg of their Girls’s Champions League quarterfinal match towards Chelsea on the Joie Stadium on Wednesday.
Shaw and Fujino suffered muscle accidents and have been substituted throughout Saturday’s League Cup remaining, which Metropolis misplaced 2-1 to the identical opponents.
Metropolis’s interim head coach Nick Cushing mentioned he suspected the accidents have been “important.”
“The issue with a lot of these accidents is that it’ll take just a few days to diagnose how lengthy [the players will be out for]. I believe that they’re important,” Cushing mentioned.
“I’ve to discover a answer for this recreation, after which we are going to roll on to the subsequent one and see the place we’re. These moments give alternatives for different gamers.”
Shaw is Metropolis’s all-time main aim scorer and the highest aim scorer within the Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) with 12 targets from 14 matches.
The accidents to Shaw and Fujino are an extra blow to a Manchester Metropolis squad already strained by the long-term absences of winger Lauren Hemp, captain Alex Greenwood, and defender Rebecca Knaak.
Wednesday evening’s match at Joie Stadium is the second of 4 conferences between the 2 sides over two weeks.
They’ll play within the WSL on Sunday afternoon earlier than the return leg of their European quarterfinal subsequent Thursday.
