Manchester United’s Luke Shaw out for months with double fracture
England left-back carried off in Champions League defeat at PSV
Shaw received treatment on pitch for nine minutes

Posted Wednesday, September 16, 2015 by theguardian.com
Luke Shaw of Manchester United receives treatment on a leg injury in Eindhoven.
Luke Shaw suffered a double fracture of his right leg during Manchester United’s Champions League defeat at PSV Eindhoven. While this left the full-back in tears and will rule him out for at least six months, Louis van Gaal remains hopeful Shaw could play again this season.
The injury was caused by a reckless tackle from Hector Moreno in the 15th minute after the 20-year-old Shaw had burst into the PSV area. He had nine minutes of treatment on the pitch and required oxygen before being taken to hospital.
Van Gaal said: "He has a double leg fracture and is in hospital. He will be transferred tomorrow or maybe a day later and then operated on in Manchester. It is awful – a boy who comes to Manchester United at 18, has it very difficult and then plays fantastically and then this happens. When it was in the dressing room he had an oxygen mask on. He was crying.
"I am not a doctor but when you have a double fracture it is six months and he will not play in the group phase. I hope he can play again this season."
Moreno appeared fortunate to escape a red card and the concession of a spot-kick. Nicola Rizzoli, the referee, did not penalise the Mexican. Van Gaal suggested the Italian official had erred. “You can judge for yourself when I say it is a penalty and a red card. It was a very bad tackle with two legs.”
A tweet on Shaw’s account read: "Thank you everyone for your messages, words can’t describe how gutted I am, my road to recovery starts now, I will come back stronger."
The England defender will have an added incentive to recover with the European Championship in France next June.
Phillip Cocu, the PSV coach, said: "It’s a very bad injury. If any player goes off with this kind of injury, everybody is very sad about it. It is never the intention of our players to injure an opponent."
Moreno suffered a broken leg when playing for Mexico against Van Gaal’s Holland at the 2014 World Cup. “He finds it very difficult because the intention was not to injure the opponent, and when you hear it is a very bad injury, it’s not good,” Cocu said. “For me it was not possible to see the moment. The only thing I could see was the ball, which was heading in a different direction, so it looked like he [Moreno] touched it, but I couldn’t see the tackle on Luke.”
Speaking to SBS6, Moreno said: "I know how it feels, I know how difficult such a thing can be. I feel very bad about it, I am so sorry."
PSV’s Andrés Guardado was also taken to hospital following a challenge by Chris Smalling.
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