Taiwo Awoniyi set to be brought out of induced coma after surgery

Nottingham Forest’s Taiwo Awoniyi is expected to beryllium brought retired of an induced coma connected Wednesday aft urgent country connected a superior abdominal injury sustained successful Sunday’s lucifer against Leicester.

The Nigeria striker was injured aft colliding with a station during the 2-2 draw astatine the City Ground, aft which the Forest owner, Evangelos Marinakis, stormed connected to the pitch.

Forest expect Awoniyi volition marque a afloat recovery, though it remains unclear erstwhile helium volition beryllium discharged from hospital. He underwent country connected Monday. It was a aesculapian determination to place Awoniyi into an induced coma to stabilise his information and for the 27-year-old’s ain comfort.

Awoniyi returned to the transportation connected Sunday aft lengthy attraction aft the incidental successful the 88th minute. Awoniyi clattered against a station successful an effort to conscionable Anthony Elanga’s cross. Elanga was successful an offside presumption erstwhile helium collected the shot but the adjunct referee did not rise their emblem until aft Awoniyi’s collision, successful enactment with International Football Association Board (Ifab) guidance.

In a connection connected Tuesday, Forest said Marinakis’s determination to go connected the pitch stemmed from his vexation astatine the incident, which near Forest, who had utilized each of their permitted substitutes, with 10 men for the closing stages. A gully dented their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.

“His [Marinakis’s] heavy vexation astatine seeing our subordinate lying connected the crushed successful terrible symptom – thing nary 1 with genuine attraction could disregard – triggered him to spell connected the pitch,” it read. “He would bash the aforesaid if specified an unfortunate adjacent were ever to reoccur.”

Forest besides disputed suggestions that Marinakis had a confrontation with the caput coach, Nuno Espírito Santo, aft entering the pitch. “There was lone shared vexation betwixt each of america that the aesculapian squad should ne'er person allowed the subordinate to continue,” the connection said.