Premier League star suffers third ACL damage in 5 years in devastating blow

On Feb 19, 2024

Wolves star Sasa Kalajdzic has suffered his third ACL damage in simply 5 years in a devastating blow for his profession.

Kalajdzic, 26, has appeared simply 14 occasions for the Premier League membership since his £15million arrival from Stuggart in the summertime of 2022. He’d registered 24 objectives and 12 assists in 60 video games for the Bundesliga facet.

But the 6’7″ striker had also missed most of the 2019/20 campaign after tearing his cruciate ligament, an injury which re-occurred on his Wolves debut and kept him sidelined for all of last season. And it’s now happened for a third time.

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Kalajdzic lasted simply 10 minutes for Eintracht Frankfurt, who he joined on mortgage within the January switch window, away at Freiburg on Sunday (February 18). The German membership have now confirmed the injury in an announcement.

It learn: “Sasa Kalajdzic ruptured the cruciate and lateral collateral ligaments in his right knee in Sunday’s away match at SC Freiburg, ruling him out for an indefinite period. Eintracht Frankfurt wishes Sasa a smooth and speedy recovery.”

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Sasa Kalajdzic of Wolverhampton Wanderers receives medical treatment during the Premier League match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Southampton FC at Molineux on September 03, 2022 — Kalajdzic tore his ACL for the second time on his Wolves debut – and it is now occurred once more
(Image: Wolverhampton Wanderers FC through Getty Images)

Kalajdzic, who has 19 caps for Austria to his identify, was used primarily off the bench by Wolves boss Gary O’Neil within the first half of the season, affording him 13 appearances throughout all competitions.

He scored profitable objectives within the league away at Everton and Bournemouth, however the choice was made to let him return to Germany till the summer season looking for common minutes forward of Euro 2024 – which he’s now nearly actually going to overlook.

Kalajdzic received off the mark for Frankfurt simply final week of their 2-2 draw with Royale Union SG within the Europa Conference League play-off spherical. During his profession he is missed a complete of 159 video games because of numerous damage points, in keeping with transfermarkt.