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Leicester Lass

Owen flying home to England

By Leicester Lass, in General Football and Sport

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hairy

hairy

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England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson said: "We can easily handle the situation because we haven't seen Theo Walcott."

Why haven't we seen him Sven? He could have been on last night but you chose not!

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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Only three strikers remaining, 1 of them still not 100 % in shape, another has never played on such an international level... I'd be very worried with only Crouch up front, a man of his height who can't even do headers...

Get well soon again, Mike. That was just pure bad luck.

Daggers

Daggers

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Ask him to get some duty free on his way through the airport for us.

Judging by his performance in the tourno ~ he'd miss the Duty Free shop too!

Iiiiiii thank you! :P

Bert

Bert

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All the best for your recovery Michael.

Theo has got to play sometime now, part of our problem is when we bring a sub and go 4-5-1, it takes a while for the players to get used to the system, but if we brought a striker on it'd only take 1 player to get into things, and we tend to try and close out the games which imo makes us lose control of the games.

Bert

Bert

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Michael Owen is out of the World Cup and flying back to England after a scan revealed the extent of his knee injury.

The 26-year-old striker twisted his right knee in the second minute of the 2-2 draw with Sweden in Cologne.

"Obviously it's a massive blow to suffer the injury - and be out of the World Cup. As soon as it happened I knew I was in trouble," said Owen.

Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson said: "I'm sorry for him. But we have many players who can take that second striker role."

Owen said that he would return to England and work with the Newcastle medical staff to start a recovery programme.

The Magpies are expected to issue more details in a statement later on Wednesday.

We don't want any more injuries on strikers but I'm not worried

"I'm clearly sorry to be leaving the lads in Germany, but I'm convinced they can go on and achieve success. "I'll be following all the matches very closely and giving them my full support, hopefully all the way to Berlin.

"My main objective is now to get fit as quickly as possible for Newcastle United."

Eriksson said: "Michael has had terrible luck with injuries since Christmas.

"I feel very sorry for him to miss out on the rest of the World Cup - it's a blow to him and a big loss for the team.

"However I am sure Michael will work very hard to get back as quickly as possible for Newcastle and England.

"He is a true professional and a very mentally strong person."

However, Eriksson said his team were still capable of lifting the World Cup despite the loss of Owen.

"We have Theo Walcott, who we haven't seen yet, we have the players in the squad who can play second striker such as Joe Cole and Steven Gerrard and Aaron Lennon can do it too.

"I'm not that worried about it. We don't want any more injuries on strikers but I'm not worried," added Eriksson.

England goalkeeper Paul Robinson told BBC Sport: "Everyone's gutted for Michael.

"It looks like we'll go through the rest of the tournament with Wayne Rooney and Peter Crouch and hopefully they'll do well."

And England captain David Beckham said: "It's sad - Michael's one of those players you need in big tournaments. It's unfortunate for him and for us,"

The bad injury caps a nightmare season for Owen, who returned to English football last summer in a £17m switch from Real Madrid to Newcastle.

He enjoyed a successful start to his Newcastle career, but broke his foot on New Year's Eve at Tottenham.

Owen battled back to play at the World Cup but looked less than fully fit and was substituted in both of England's opening games, without scoring.

MC Prussian

MC Prussian

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I’m very serious when I say 'David James is the best centre forward England have got at the moment'

You got a point there. James knows how to play close to a goal line.

breadandcheese

breadandcheese

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I feel very sorry for Theo Walcott right now.

Sven will only play him when he has no choice i.e. England trailing in the knock-out stages with 10-15 mins to go. He is the only other forward we can throw into the mix to get an extra body in the box, should we require this.

That is a hell of an ask of a young lad, particularly when all the other players on the pitch (your own teammates) know that bringing him on will be a move of such desperation that it is almost resignation. That will be a big weight on a lad's shoulders.

Jay

Jay

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That and the Magpies?

£15million transfer fee!!

£100k per week!!

£5million per season

and just 8hrs of football in 18 months if he comes back in January

Jay

Jay

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Michael Owens been very unlucky, hope he recovers from his injury soon. He hasnt had a very good two years has he?

I dunno he has pretty much done nothing for 2years yet earned about £20million I would settle for that!!

Cobbo

Cobbo

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For god's sake master fox, shut up!

Shame about Owen too. Ah well, Crouchy and Rooneh will do alreet.

Then Cole and Gerrard as back up strikets and Walcott on the bench watching cbeebees.

Ricey

Ricey

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Poor Owen :(

I feel really down about England after last night, don't worry though, I'm going to start a positive filled thread tomorrow to raise peoples spirits :D

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