‘One of those spells’ for Middlesbrough as Michael Carrick is hit with another two injuries
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Michael Carrick admits Middlesbrough are just having one of those spells as they were hit with another two injuries this week just as their injury list started to ease somewhat.
With less than two weeks until the play-offs kick-off, Boro were able to welcome back Tommy Smith, Paddy McNair and Riley McGree to their squad for what turned out to be a defeat at Rotherham United. However, Ryan Giles was missing from the squad after taking a knock in training before things got worse for Carrick pre-match.
Captain Jonny Howson limped out of the warm-up ahead of the game which meant that McGree was joined by McNair in the revised starting line-up. While the returning trio all came through the game fine, Boro are now left waiting on another two key players with the play-offs fast approaching.
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Offering an update after the 1-0 defeat in South Yorkshire, Carrick said: “Gilo got a knock in training and has been out for a couple of days, so we’ll have to wait and see. Then Jonny got injured in the warm-up, so we’ll have to see how he is as well.
“He had a pain in the back of his knee/top of his calf in the warm-up. We’re just having one of those spells at the moment when we’re having a cluster of injuries at the moment.”
While Boro did welcome back the aforementioned trio at Rotherham, Howson and Giles now join Dael Fry, Matt Clarke, Marcus Forss and Aaron Ramsey on the sidelines. There were worrying signs this week when footage on social media from Aston Villa showed the Villa loanee back in the Midlands. But there was little new information from the Boro boss, other than to reassure that doesn’t mean his season is over.
“He’s just there getting treatment because he’s their player,” Carrick said of Ramsey and his Villa return. “There’s always hope [that he could be back for the play-offs]. We’ll just have to wait and see.
“On the others, again it’s just wait and see. We’re not sure when we’ll have him back, and I haven’t got any more news, unfortunately.”
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