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Craig HillHope for Eduardo
February 26th 2008 08:31
It is hoped that Arsenal's Croatia striker Eduardo will make a full recovery from his horrific leg break in nine months.
Eduardo will have his leg in plaster for the next six to eight weeks before beginning a rehabilitation programme. If all goes well, he should be running again inside six months.
Since the incident, Martin Taylor the Birmingham centre half who caused the injury has been targeted by some angry fans, including from Croatia, who have posted threatening messages on various internet sites.
Security personnel had to restrain Croatian journalists who ran on to the road and tried to get into Taylor's car as he left the club's Wast Hills training complex on Monday.
But Croatia manager Slaven Bilic, who will now be without his prolific striker for the European Championship finals this summer, has been quick to defend the 28-year-old centre-half.
"The injury made the tackle look bad," Billic told BBC Radio 5 Live. "You see many tackles like that, almost every week."
He continued, "That's perhaps wrong for football but I'm sure Martin Taylor is a sportsman and he wanted to play the ball. On another occasion Eduardo could have received a worse tackle and got away without injury. Everything went wrong but Eduardo knows Taylor didn't do it deliberately."
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