“Fantastic” Sunderland Player Suffers Hamstring Injury

Sunderland full-back Niall Huggins has suffered one other harm setback after pulling his hamstring.

What’s the most recent on Huggins’ harm?

Huggins, who arrived from Leeds United again in 2021, has had a horrible few years at The Stadium of Gentle. The 22-year-old missed the vast majority of final season via harm, making simply four senior appearances, and has turned out simply twice in the course of the present marketing campaign.

His solely Championship look got here again in November in opposition to Birmingham Metropolis, with the left-back being hailed as “fantastic” by supervisor Tony Mowbray after he accomplished the complete 90 minutes. Nevertheless, he hasn’t been included in a second-tier matchday squad since, along with his final look coming at Fulham within the FA Cup again in January.

Huggins has turned out for Sunderland’s U21s in opposition to former facet Leeds final month and was on account of characteristic in opposition to Nottingham Forest on Monday earlier than struggling one other setback.

The Sunderland Echo offered an replace relating to Huggins within the final 48 hours. They acknowledged that Huggins was set to start out the Premier League 2 fixture at Eppleton CW however had to get replaced by Ben Crompton after pulling his hamstring within the warm-up.

Might that be Huggins’ season over?

Hamstring accidents can hold gamers out for just a few days or in a worst-case state of affairs as much as six weeks, nevertheless, with Huggins’ harm points, it wouldn’t come as a shock if we didn’t see him characteristic underneath Mowbray once more this season.

His contract nonetheless has one other two years left to run, so might properly stay a Sunderland participant heading into the 2023/24 season, nevertheless, it could possibly be a make-or-break marketing campaign for the participant.

A 3rd 12 months in succession of quite a few harm issues might lead to The Black Cats trying to transfer the participant on, particularly after making a handful of first-team appearances in his first few years.

It have to be a particularly tough time for the participant, although, so hopefully, he can discover a strategy to keep match for the remainder of the 12 months, trying to power his method into Mowbray’s plans.