Vermaelen grateful for 'not so serious' injury

Defender Thomas Vermaelen is thankful that the suspected broken leg he suffered against Everton was less serious than initially feared.

It turned out that the Belgian captain had hurt a bone, rather than suffer a fracture, and was available to play against champions Manchester United where he scored a consolation goal in the 3-1 defeat.

Speaking to the official matchday programme, Vermaelen said: "I was a little bit worried at first but suppose I was lucky!

"You never know, because it was the smaller leg bone that I hurt, you don't feel the pain when one's fractured as you would with the larger one.

"It turned out that I could play without pain against Manchester United, but after that game I had some more problems so I went for a scan.

"We could see then that there was a big bruise on the bone, and that's all – so it's painful but that can be controlled with medicine and when it's not broken you can't do too much wrong.

"It's not a big problem to play – yes, it's still there and will take some time to go away, but it's not dangerous."

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