Portsmouth confirm crushing Callum Lang injury blow as timescale revealed
Portsmouth have really got the best out of Callum Lang this season, with the dynamic attacker having scored 10 Championship goals.
The Blues have relied upon their talisman perhaps too much at times, especially in the early parts of the campaign.
The battle for John Mousinho’s men to survive continues, which took an excellent turn with just their second away win of the season against Oxford United on Saturday (15 February).
Callum Lang suffers cruel injury blow
Having become Portsmouth’s most influential player across the course of this season, Lang’s injury will now see the Blues gutted with the latest update.
It has been confirmed via the official Portsmouth FC website (19 February) that the forward is likely to miss the rest of the campaign with a torn hamstring.
Mousinho had previously stated after the Oxford win that Lang was not in the worst of situations, but scans have revealed a worse outcome than initially hoped.
It comes as a huge shock and crushing blow for a Pompey side who recently looked to have turned a corner.
Lang made the number 10 position his own in Mousinho’s favoured 4-2-3-1 system, and will now have to watch on from the sidelines as the head coach shuffles his pack and gives others an opportunity.
Callum Lang is likely to miss the remainder of the season after suffering a torn hamstring on Saturday.
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Portsmouth stars have big shoes to fill
Mousinho now has a key decision to make on how he shuffles his side and which players he entrusts with the responsibility of stepping up to Lang’s very prominent plate.
Though Lang’s performances had begun to look a little leggy with the main man in need of a rest, his importance to Pompey was such that Mousinho could ill afford to leave him out, despite his tendency to rotate where possible.
Just when the injury list was beginning to shorten for the Blues, they have now been hit by not only Lang’s absence but that of Conor Shaughnessy too, a man who already missed five months of the season.
After forming a sturdy centre-half partnership with January recruit Rob Atkinson, Shaughnessy has now picked up a hamstring injury of his own which could see him out for up to eight weeks.