Celtic defender Cameron Carter-Vickers faces five months out through an achilles injury, Brendan Rodgers has confirmed.
The centre-back suffered the injury in the closing stages of the 2-1 Europa League win over Sturm Graz on Thursday evening.
Carter-Vickers had fallen to the turf in pain seconds before the final whistle. Now, Rodgers has revealed the defender is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines.
🚨 BREAKING Celtic defender Cameron Carter-Vickers is facing "between three and five months" out with an achilles injury ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/yRsh3HTfOj
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Rodgers said: "He looks like he has done his Achilles, which could be anywhere between three and five months.
"So we just await confirmation of that. It’s not great news, but we will see where that one goes.
“Cameron has been a very important member of the squad, of course, and a great centre-half for the club.
"What I always think it does is opens up an opportunity for someone else. That opportunity came to Liam Scales and he has been brilliant in my time here, and you seen his performance last night (vs Sturm Graz) and he was so good - and it will open the door for someone else to come in and look to perform.”
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Alistair Johnston and Kelechi Iheanacho had to be withdrawn in the first hald with hamstring problems.
Rodgers had said after the match: "Yeah, well our problem was second half we could only make one substitution. So obviously Cam was struggling towards the end but we couldn't give them off because we'd already made the subs, obviously got your three moments to to make the subs in the game.
"The first two (Iheanacho and Johnston) doesn't look great. It looks like hamstring but but look, that's what happens.
"But I thought the guys who came in, I thought Colby for a young guy coming in, I thought he grew in the game and got better and was more secure as the game went on. And he wants to go forward, which is what we wanted. And Johnny came in on the right-hand side and threatened in behind and pressed the game and had a couple of wee moments in the box where he nearly got on the end of it. So so yeah, the guys came in, stood up to it really well."
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