Ola Aina speaks out on the Taiwo Awoniyi injury saying that the offside flag would have prevented the incident.
Ola Aina speaks on the injury to team-mate Taiwo Awoniyi.
According to teammate Ola Aina, Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi’s injury “would never have happened” if the assistant referee had raised their flag sooner.
Following surgery to heal a severe abdominal injury, 27-year-old Awoniyi was awakened from an induced coma on Wednesday.
In the last moments of Sunday’s 2-2 Premier League draw against Leicester City, the Nigerian was transported to the hospital on Monday after he struck a post while trying to get on the end of a cross from winger Anthony Elanga.
Due to an offside policy that was implemented in 2020, Elanga was offside in the build-up to the incident, but the assistant referee did not raise their flag until the play was over.
“Anthony was miles offside. The whole world could see and so could I from where I was,” defender Aina told the Mail., external
“You think ‘offside’ straight away. Surely you could just lift the flag up?
“None of this would have happened to ‘T’ if the flag had just gone up, would it?”
“It’s horrible seeing someone you are close with go through something like this, but I pray to God everything goes to plan and goes well and that we will be hearing from him soon,” Aina said.