Noa Lang breaks silence after horror Liverpool injury as Galatasaray star undergoes surgery
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Noa Lang was stretchered off the pitch and taken to hospital during Wednesday evening's Champions League clash between Liverpool and Galatasaray, undergoing surgery for a horror injuryNoa Lang has said that: "S*** happens," in a two-word update following a horrific injury sustained against Liverpool in the Champions League on Wednesday evening. The Reds played host to the Turkish giants in the second-leg of a last 16 clash in the competition at Anfield, 1-0 down on aggregate.While Arne Slot's side was able to reverse his club's fortunes on home soil, it was a grizzly injury picked up by Lang which dominated the headlines.
If there is an operation, they will do it here."Galatasaray, meanwhile, released a statement which read: "In the first half of our away match against Liverpool in the Champions League Round of 16 second leg, our player Victor Osimhen took a blow to his arm and completed the first half, but following checks at halftime, he was not played in the second half due to the risk of a fracture in his arm."After the match, under the supervision of our medical team, examinations at the hospital revealed a fracture in our player's right forearm, and it was casted. A decision regarding surgery will be made in the coming days following further evaluations."In the second half of the same match, our player Noa Lang, who suffered an injury, sustained a serious cut to his right thumb, and it is planned for him to undergo surgery in Liverpool in the coming hours with the participation of our medical team."FOLLOW OUR LIVERPOOL FC FACEBOOK PAGE!
All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageNow, Lang has shared an update of his own from hospital - sharing a selfie on a gurney all smiles alongside nurses. Dominik Szoboszlai opened the scoring for his side on the night in the first-half, coolly connecting after bursting into the box unmarked from a well-worked corner routine.Hugo Ekitike was then picked out at the back post by Mohamed Salah early into the second-half, with little work to do as he slotted the ball past Ugurcan Cakir.Ryan Gravenberch made it 3-0 moments later with a thunderous rebound of Salah's initial strike, before the Egyptian king made his own way onto the scoresheet, curling the ball into the corner of the net following some cute one-two play with Florian Wirtz.The first leg of the quarter-finals lands at the Parc des Princes come Wednesday, April 8.