Nottingham Forest defender Ola Aina will miss action for up to three months due to injury, reports Completesports.com.
Aina picked up a hamstring injury while in action for Nigeria against Bafana Bafana of South Africa on Tuesday.
The former Chelsea player left the pitch on 12 minutes, and was replaced by Birmingham City,’ Bright Osayi-Samuel.
The full-back will now be sidelined until the end of the year, according to the Telegraph.
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Aina was a key player under former manager Nuno Espírito Santo in the last campaign.
The 28-year-old has played every minute in the Premier League so far this season.
Aina’s absence for such a long period means that he has been excluded from Forest’s Premier League squad, which was submitted on Thursday.
The versatile full-back will also miss Nigeria’s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho, and Benin Republic in October as well as the international friendly with Venezuela in November.
He will hope to return to action before the start of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in December.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Im sorry brotherly. That is a consequence of playing in a bad pitch due to the administrative ineptitude of the NFF . If they lodge a former protest to FIFA with respect to that pitch perhaps SE will hv beaten south Africa and stood a good chance of qualifying..
Hahahahaha….we know this trick, Aina and Nottingham Forest are trying to “fake an injury” to avoid call up for our last 2 WCQ matches, the friendly vs Venezuela and probably AFCON sef. The tackle was not that serious sef. There was nothing intense about it. How can a player be injured after just 12 minutes of a football match? Omo, I question the commitment of these players to the Super Eagles. Their Finidi, Okparaku, Unaunel and Dosu Joseph said it. That arrogant Osimehn that is not even all that good, is beginning to influence their aina the rest of the team with his bad behaviour. Very soon, Aina too will start moving with gays and ritualists. This is what I have been saying since, that that demented rodent is too dumb to see. I won’t be surprised if Aina resumes training and starts playing before the 3 months is over.
Common sense is indeed not common……..LMAOOoo
As the saying goes, “A wise man fills his brain before emptying his mouth.”
LMAAOO!
Incompetent NFF never protested that pitch from its announcement despite knowing the danger it posses. Neither did the media house make any noise about it. Here we go messing up with the careers of players because of evil Caf agenda. I will not be following Nigeria football henceforth, because the attention is usually placed on the wrong place and not the main culprits of the match outcome. Will Caf allow South Africa to play on bad pitch if it were his country at dangers of loosing the WCQ?
They made most of team relocate to their stadium as home matches away from home with this same bad pitch ban tactics and still had audacity to bring our players on that pitch. Football has become a dance of shame!!!
What a pity bro, get well soon.
These are the risks been taken by these players and some villagers will go on social media to spew rubbish about commitment.