New Leeds signing Luis Sinisterra came off just 12 minutes into his first start for the club holding his left hamstring, and boss Jesse Marsch addressed this post-game.
“Luis Sinisterra had a little hamstring injury. We’re hopeful it is not too much or too long or too severe. Any time we have a hamstring injury, I’m totally dissatisfied because that’s reflective of everything we do with them physically. We’ll evaluate that and we hope it’s not that bad.”
It is undoubtedly frustrating for a new signing to go off with a hamstring injury like that, but it does look like the injury may not be as bad as many had feared.
Sinisterra in action for Colombia / REUTERS/Manaure Quintero
It wasn’t just Sinisterra that got injured, though. Adam Forshaw also came off in the first-half, and here is what Marsch had to say on that:
“Adam Forshaw had Mateta lean on him a little bit and tweaked his knee. We’re hopeful as well that one’s not so bad, but we’ll get more information on it in the next days.”
Pre-season is absolutely not a time that you want injuries to happen, especially when it is the first under a new manager, and these players may lose vital time in which they could have become more accustomed to the system for the upcoming season, as well as Liam Cooper and Junior Firpo having injuries, Archie Gray going off injured against Aston Villa and Cody Drameh not deemed fit enough to be in the squad for the Palace game.