Latest Huddersfield Town injury news ahead of Exeter City after Lasse Sorensen blow
Huddersfield Town have no fresh injury concerns heading into tomorrow's game against Exeter City. None of the sidelined players are ready to return.
Ollie Turton has deputised for Lasse Sorensen, who has been ruled out for the next six to eight weeks due to a hamstring problem, over the past two games. But the defender has had to be substituted in both matches as he continues to get up to speed.
“It’s just his body, it’s a lack of minutes, which is through no fault of his own,” head coach Michael Duff said. “Lasse, pretty much him and Brodie (Spencer) have played that position between them, but he’s come in, he did well on Saturday, I thought he did well for 70 minutes.
“He could probably try and stay on for himself, and try and get 90 minutes in and then try and play at 60 per cent, but he knows that you’re at a level now that you can’t play it half-cock, you can’t play 60 per cent, so he puts his hand up straight away and it’s like ‘I feel alright, but I’m just starting to cramp up in both legs’, so the best thing for the team is to come off. I think it’s the epitome of what you want, selfless for the betterment of the team.
“His two performances have been excellent, and we said this before he was in the team – it’s not a case of he was a trialist and he had anything to prove, it’s just that he couldn’t find his way in, but we know he’s a good player, because we see it every day in training.”
On Sorensen's absence, Duff said: "Obviously we get the numbers and the letters of the grade, which I can’t exactly remember, but simpletons like me, I’m expecting him to be missing eight weeks, anything before that is a bonus.
“It’s disappointing, and it’s hard to put a finger on it, because it’s not a fatigue injury when you do it in the first four minutes of a game. It’s a bit like the Micha (Michal Helik) one, sometimes you’re [asking] ‘have they done too much in the week? Is it a fatigue element, that we’ve done too much?’, but when they’re doing it in the first half [it isn’t].
“Mich took a knock, Lasse’s was just a mechanism of getting into a sprint, and he felt it go a little bit.”