Norwich City loanee undergoes surgery as Motherwell hit with another injury blow ahead of Celtic
It’s a blow for Motherwell as the Norwich City loanee is the latest to be injured.
Motherwell have been dealt another injury blow with news of their Norwich City loanee going for an operation.
The goalkeeping department has come in for some heavy hitting in the past month at Fir Park, with the club now without a manager after Stuart Kettlewell’s resignation earlier this week. Aston Oxborough is out with a thumb injury long-term, and Krystian Heygi was recalled to West Ham.
There is a desire for Matty Connelly to keep playing senior games at East Kilbride, and Ellery Balcombe has been brought on loan from Brentford to help cover. Now Mair has underwent surgery for a problem picked up in training.
He missed the game vs St Johnstone last weekend and now has been hit with the blow that ahead of Celtic, he’ll be missing for a period of time. Motherwell have been ravaged by injury across this season and are already missing Lennon Miller, Paul McGinn, Apostolos Stamatelopoulos and several others.
Caretaker boss Stephen Frail said: “Archie’s had surgery on Tuesday, so we’ll just be looking at how long the prognosis will be for that. Hopefully it won’t be too long.
“I don’t know if the injury was the exact same, but he picked it up the exact same way, a kick on the hand. The same thing that happened to Aston in the Kilmarnock game happened to Archie in a training session two days after we brought him into the club. So there’s that wee bit of misfortune as well.
