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Gloomy injury update

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Tomas Soucek heads for a scan today after leaving the action at Anfield last night but he’s certain to miss the game against Southampton on Saturday.

The on-loan Czech midfielder is believed to be suffering from a groin or adductor injury, probably from overstretching, and manager David Moyes confirmed after the game he wasn’t taken off as a precaution and that he faced further medical checks today.

That will include a scan but already a Hammers insider has revealed that he could be out for up to a month.

It’s a real blow for Moyes with the player making a real impression since his arrival in the team on loan during the winter window.

Pablo Fornals scored on his Anfield entry for Soucek and looks set to get a start against Saints at the weekend.

Thankfully, Declan Rice left it until the post-December cut off date before picking up his fifth yellow card and thus has five more to collect before facing a suspension.

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Hugh Southon is a lifelong Iron and the founding editor of ClaretandHugh. He is a national newspaper journalist of many years experience and was Bobby Moore's 'ghost' writer during the great man's lifetime. He describes ClaretandHugh as "the Hammers daily newspaper!"

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4 comments

  • Desparate Dan says:

    Souchek was making a big difference. A great signing by Moyes it has to be said so big blow for Moyes yes but an even bigger blow for his team mates and a big blow for the fans.

  • Simon M says:

    We will really miss Tomas. He has been immense for our team. We can only wish, hope and pray for a speedy and strong recovery. God bless Tomas.

  • Marco says:

    …th silver lining being that if this type of injury is caused by overstretching, we can say with a degree of certainty that Masuaku, Anderson and Haller will NEVER be victims

  • LJ says:

    A player who apparently not been injured all season comes here and almost straight away gets the whu curse,

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