Mauro Rosales Out 2-4 Weeks With Small MCL Tear
by Dave Clark on Sep 20, 2011 7:44 AM PDT
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Monday Afternoon Mauro Rosales underwent an MRI to see just how bad the injury to his knee is. He and the Seattle Sounders were told that it is a small tear of his right medial collateral ligament. The Sounders report that the expected recovery is 2-4 weeks, but longer is certainly possible.
Two missed weeks means he's out for games against the Vancouver Whitecaps and New England Revolution in league play. Rosales would also miss two CONCACAF Champions League matches, but he was unlikely to start those anyway. September and October are packed months with mainly two match weeks.
At four weeks missed Seattle's chances at a trophy start to shift. That would put him out against the Chicago Fire in the US Open Cup Final, the final three games of the MLS regular season and the final CCL game. If anything the importance of bypassing the Play-In/Wild Card round gets another bullet point. Getting Rosales back just prior to the MLS Cup Playoffs with a week to train is better than throwing him to the wolves in a one-off game.
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This is great news.
2-4 weeks for an ACL/MCL type injury is a relatively short amount of time. It still sucks but at least he’s not out the rest of the season and could possibly come back before the Open Cup if we’re lucky. We shouldn’t need him for the Whitecaps or Revs games.
this is along the line of what I was thinking
With an MCL sprain, the news couldn’t be much better, but it sure could have been a whole lot worse. We’re in really good positions in terms of making the MLS plaqyoffs and the next round of the CCL, so the only game that it really really hurts to miss him is the Open Cup Final.
This is our year. We’re winning the MLS Cup, and I think it’s best we do what is needed to have Mauro healthy and ready for our playoff run.
We're in the playoffs
And for the most part the knockout stages of CCL are a distinct probability as well. As much as it will suck not seeing him on the field, our reserves have won us some big games in the past, and we’re deep in the midfield now that Evans is back. I could see a Flaco-Badger-Friberg-Evans midfield working in our favor over the next few weeks.
I met a possum.
Have we ever tried Fucito on the right?
He’s got speed and he can cross the ball. He’s obviously dangerous up top and it is another way to give him minutes. I think I’d prefer him to Noonan or Levesque on the right.
by Zakuani11Fan on Sep 20, 2011 9:14 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
For a few minutes in one game
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Knowing Sigi
Evans will find some way onto the pitch.
I met a possum.
by s0merand0mdude on Sep 20, 2011 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions
When Hurtado sprained his MCL...
how long was he out?
Matt G just answered my question:
“Earlier this season, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado suffered a similar injury that kept him out from July 10 until he returned against Comunicaciones in the Champions League match on August 16. At that point in the season, there was no urgency to get Hurtado back on the field though.”
Dammnnnnnittttt
I was about to say he missed from Jul11 to Aug10th games.
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other difference
JKH was coming off a massive knee injury
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by Jeremiah Oshan on Sep 20, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Ugh.
Really depressing. An entertaining and valuable player gets taken out by a nobody for no reason. Ever heard that song before?
I get that MLS has a lot on its plate trying to stay viable and grow in a market where soccer is far from the No. 1 priority of sports fans. And I understand that allowing a certain level of goon play is a crudely effective blunt-force trauma way of creating parity.
But seriously, MLS, you have to figure out what kind of league you want to be. To this fan’s eyes, Montero-to-Rosales-to-Flaco and into the net = entertainment. Random dude smashing the snot out of quality player in the name of “hustle” = crap. And there are franchises who seem to follow the crap strategy exclusively (even successfully, somewhat.)
I don’t know how you fix it, but you bloody well gotta fix it, MLS.
Opinions differ
I think it could have been a yellow. However, that’s with a ref calling it pretty tight. Stott was doing anything but calling a tight game.
by Dizzo on Sep 20, 2011 3:48 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Even Sigi didn't say it was a dirty single play
but a pattern of fouls targeting one player with which he had an issue. There were at least a dozen fouls harder than that one during the game, to include several by Sounders.
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Eh... not worried about cards in this case
I guess I don’t really know whether or not the foul was worthy of a card; I don’t have the machinery to make an informed call on that one way or another. Brighter soccer minds than mine can make that determination.
I do know that the foul that caused the injury was utterly pointless at the time it occurred and seemingly part of a general strategy of “taking shots” when available. Its something we seem to see a lot and that it is such a common strategy makes it look like it has the tacit approval of the league.
And that depresses me as a fan. I want cool passing and awesome breakaways and nifty footwork. I don’t want to see good players wiped out by scrubs in garbage time. When I want to see people smashing the crap out of each other, I watch the NFL.
It seems reasonable that the league could do something about the toxic overall level of “physical play” if it wanted to. Perhaps the dirty little secret is that it can’t; perhaps the salary cap isn’t enough to create the right level of parity and they need to let a certain number of squads eke out a living Philadelphia Union style. Dunno.
The overall problem of goon play in MLS has been discussed, I gather, all over the place. I just picked this thread to vent a bit.
Knee injuries always make me nervous
They have a way of being worse than they originally seem and having complications. Maybe I’m just pessimistic. I’d love to see Rosales back in 2 weeks (in fact, it’s almost a relief to not have him play vs the Revs, who will undoubtedly look to beat the crap out of the team as a strategy), but I 4 weeks is probably more likely with another week or two for him to get back to being in the groove, so to say. At least he should be ready for the playoffs (knock on wood).
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