first i heard it was a slight twinge...it's gone quiet since then! It's a hamstring from what i understand, and remember a couple of weeks ago he was having a problem at the end of a match, can't remember which one now! I wouldn't be surprised if we were looking at 4-6 weeks but don't quote me on it!
possibly not, though i doubt, from what i have seen of Joka, that he would have risked anything, so i presume they thought the problem was cured. Will be gutting to lose him and Abdi for the run in, fingers crossed they both will be ok quickly!
Let's be fair, love him as we do we all know the Matty's head is not the most efficiently screwed on is it? Not saying what's happened is right but it's not really that surprising either. Not really, is it?
I think he needs a certain sort of management and our current head coach wasn't prepared to be that flexible... shame......
From the Mirror: Watford's Odion Ighalo dodged bullets and ate snow on his way to living Premier League dream Nigeria international survived gang-wars in Lagos slums and shivered through a spell in Norway as a teenager before helping the Hornets win promotion And when he trod that well-worn path from tropical Nigeria to icy Norway, the first time he ever saw snow he ate it. Ighalo, 26, is now enjoying the riches of English football, and his journey from inner-city hardship in Africa to Watford’s tilt at Premier League survival, is now the yardstick for kids who dream of turning from austerity to prosperity. Today, Ighalo will be on the Hornets front line against high-flying Swansea having just signed a new five-year contract at Vicarage Road. Watford have yet to score at home under head coach Quique Sanchez Flores, but the Nigerian international striker has endured worse privation. “I come from the ghetto where there was no 24-hour electricity, no good water, bad roads and the neighbourhood is tough,” he said. “We used to kick old cans, plastic bottles, sometimes even an orange, around the streets in bare feet. Steve Paston/PA Wire please log in to view this image Where is thy sting? Flores' Hornets haven't scored a home goal yet this season “Whatever I go on to achieve in football, I will always give thanks to God for this opportunity to live my dream – but I will also never forget where I came from. “Ajegunle is where my journey began and I’m proud of that. My first team, Olodi Warriors, used to play on a grass pitch known locally as the ‘Maracana’ but it was really a big, wide-open field. “On one corner there were boys selling marijuana and they were always being chased by the police when they cut across the pitch. We would hit the floor when we heard the ‘pop, pop, pop’ of gunfire and then continue training. “It’s part of life, but bullets don’t always know who are the footballers and who are the bad guys.” Ighalo was scouted by Norway’s Lyn Oslo as a 17-year-old, and the youngest of seven children left Nigeria to seek his fortune in a country where temperatures were often 70 degrees colder. “There were three players from Nigeria who went to Norway – but one of them had to go home because he could not cope with the cold,” he said. “I could easily have followed him, but when I thought of the hardship I left behind, I was not going to cut and run. “I had never seen snow before in Nigeria. The first time it snowed in Oslo I was like a child. I was eating it, rubbing it on my head, throwing it in the air like confetti... it was a new toy.” After 10 months, Ighalo was snared in the web of Watford’s owners, the Italian Pozzo dynasty, joining Udinese before being loaned out to their Spanish club, Granada, where he is revered. Ighalo scored the winner in consecutive play-off finals as Granada leapt to La Liga. His happy knack of scoring important goals and winning promotion endured after his move to Vicarage Road 14 months ago. When Watford, trailing 2-1, were down to 10 men at Derby on Good Friday, Ighalo snaffled a precious equaliser. Three days later, his rocket against Middlesbrough in another promotion shootout clinched an important 2-0 win and made the Hornets believe they were going up. Action Images / Matthew Childs please log in to view this image Next stop, Premier League! Ighalo blasts in a key promotion-race goal against Middlesbrough Ighalo was off the mark on the opening day of this season in a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park, leaving England’s John Stones on his backside with his signature ‘scoop’ turn. “I’ve been lucky enough to score some important goals, but my work is not done,” he said. “One day, when I’ve made good money in football, I would like to go back to Ajegunle and provide better pitches, help the kids at grassroots levels. “My mum had to work so hard, selling bottled water and soft drinks, to pay for my first pair of adidas Copa Mundial boots, and everything I am today I owe to her and to God.”
Wonder if he´ll end our top scorer this season, he did well today with Deeney in a role just behind, he is slight but held it up v. well today.
good peice in todays Times on Iggy. In it he says he tries to take every call, respond to every text and answer every request to help family and friends. Especially those back in his native Nigeria.
I hope he doesn´t get too many emails from Nigerian´s offering to transfer money as his indebted a big payment!
Ighalo somehow fails to make the shortlist for the African player of the year..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34504968
