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CSKA Moscow's Keisuke Honda in fresh knee injury worry after missing Uefa Champions League defeat to Lille
The AFC Player of the Year nominee felt pain in his knee on his return from treatment in Saturday's league game before flying to Spain for further medical tests in midweek
Nov 23, 2011 6:16:00 AM
By Ben Somerford
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The immediate fitness of CSKA Moscow's Japan international Keisuke Honda is in doubt after he missed Tuesday's 2-0 Champions League loss to Lille having flown to Spain for medical tests on his knee problem.
The 25-year-old Samurai Blue star had returned from the injury in Saturday's Russian Premier League 2-1 loss to Rubin Kazan after missing almost three months of football.
However, CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky confirmed after Tuesday's game, which Honda missed, that the player had felt pain in the knee during Saturday's match.
The Russian club subsequently opted to send Honda to Spain for medical examination.
Honda, who was nominated for the AFC Player of the Year award, the winner of which will be announced on Wednesday night, looks certain to miss CSKA's clash with Anzhi Makhachkala on Sunday.
He will now await the doctor's verdict on his availability for the crucial Champinos League clash with Inter on December 7.
CSKA must win the match against Inter to have any chance of progressing to the final 16, and Slutsky hinted after Tuesday's loss that Honda could be required even if not 100 percent fit.
"Injury problems didn’t allow us to show our best football. As soon as our players are getting a bit better and they have to go out on the pitch right away," Slutsky told reporters.
The 25-year-old Samurai Blue star had returned from the injury in Saturday's Russian Premier League 2-1 loss to Rubin Kazan after missing almost three months of football.
However, CSKA coach Leonid Slutsky confirmed after Tuesday's game, which Honda missed, that the player had felt pain in the knee during Saturday's match.
The Russian club subsequently opted to send Honda to Spain for medical examination.
Honda, who was nominated for the AFC Player of the Year award, the winner of which will be announced on Wednesday night, looks certain to miss CSKA's clash with Anzhi Makhachkala on Sunday.
He will now await the doctor's verdict on his availability for the crucial Champinos League clash with Inter on December 7.
CSKA must win the match against Inter to have any chance of progressing to the final 16, and Slutsky hinted after Tuesday's loss that Honda could be required even if not 100 percent fit.
"Injury problems didn’t allow us to show our best football. As soon as our players are getting a bit better and they have to go out on the pitch right away," Slutsky told reporters.
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