This is a blatant admission on the part of Sunderland that Niall Huggins will need to have a long-term injury layoff once more. I am extremely sorry to hear this.

This is a blatantadmission on the part of Sunderland that Niall Huggins will need to have a long-term injury layoff once more. I am extremely sorry to hear this.

Following a significant knee injury sustained during Sunderland’s Saturday loss to Coventry City, Niall Huggins will likely miss the start of next season as well as the rest of this one. In the last 10 minutes of the match at the Stadium of Light, the Wales U21 international defender collapsed to the ground in apparent pain and was taken off a stretcher.

After undergoing a scan, the 23-year-old’s ailment was determined to be surgically repaired, albeit the specific nature of the injury has not yet been made public. Huggins is anticipated to miss “at least” the rest of the 2023–24 season, according to a statement from the club, though no firm date has been set for his comeback.

“Sunderland AFC confirms that Niall Huggins will have surgery following a major knee injury,” the statement read. The Wales international landed awkwardly and had to be replaced in the 85th minute of the team’s match against Coventry City.

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“At this moment, there is no set timeline for the defender’s return to action, but it is anticipated that he will miss at least the remaining games of the 2023–24 campaign. At this extremely trying moment, everyone at SAFC is pulling for Niall, and they will do all in their power to get him back on the field as quickly as possible.”

The news is a significant setback for Huggins, whose injury-plagued spell at Sunderland continues. He moved from Leeds United to the Black Cats in the summer of 2021, but in his first two years on Wearside, he only made eight appearances across all competitions due to a string of chronic problems, which included a heel problem and a stress fracture in his back.

However, he made a full recovery this season and had been playing well before suffering this most recent injury. Prior to that, he had started 17 of Sunderland’s past 18 games.