Nottingham Forest striker Taiwo Awoniyi in an induced coma and receiving intensive care after emergency surgery on abdominal injury which could have been fatal

Taiwo Awoniyi is successful an induced coma and receiving intensive attraction pursuing 'urgent' country connected a superior abdominal wounded that Mail Sport tin uncover could person been life-threatening.

The Nottingham Forest striker crashed into a station during Sunday's 2-2 gully with Leicester and, pursuing respective minutes of treatment, returned to enactment earlier being taken off.

Forest confirmed connected Tuesday that the 27-year-old underwent urgent country aft the grade of the wounded was confirmed connected Monday and helium was rushed to hospital. Mail Sport understands that the archetypal signs are that the country has been a success. In what is simply a analyzable aesculapian process, doctors were expecting to contiguous implicit the operation.

The wounded was of a quality which, successful immoderate cases, tin beryllium fatal. Forest said that the striker is 'recovering well'.

The nine accompanied that update with an onslaught connected their ain aesculapian unit and those — including Sky Sports' Gary Neville — who criticised proprietor Evangelos Marinakis for entering the tract and appearing to remonstrate with brag Nuno Espirito Santo.

Awoniyi could not beryllium substituted due to the fact that Forest had utilized their past disposable power to regenerate Elliot Anderson with Jota Silva. The guardant tried to transportation on, but was incapable to determination decently arsenic Forest chased a precocious victor which would person boosted their Champions League qualification hopes.

After they were near to play the past fewer minutes with 10 men, it appeared Marinakis took contented with Nuno astatine afloat time.

But successful a singular statement, the nine clarified matters. It read: 'The seriousness of Taiwo Awoniyi's wounded is simply a almighty reminder of the carnal risks successful the crippled and wherefore a player's wellness and well-being indispensable ever travel first. This rule is not conscionable argumentation for us, it is the profoundly held content and condemnation of our owner. To Evangelos Marinakis, this isn't conscionable a club, it's family, and helium instils that connection successful each of us.

'That is wherefore helium was truthful personally and emotionally invested successful the situation. His absorption was 1 of heavy care, work and affectional concern successful 1 of our own.

'He didn't conscionable spot it arsenic an isolated incident, but thing that reflected the values and unity of the full team.

'In moments similar that helium demonstrates his leadership, not conscionable done words, but done enactment and presence.

'When helium saw our subordinate intelligibly successful discomfort it became progressively hard for him to enactment connected the sidelines.

'It was instinctive, human, and a reflection of conscionable however overmuch this squad and its radical mean to him. He would bash the aforesaid again if specified an unfortunate lawsuit were ever to reoccur.

'There was nary confrontation, with Nuno oregon others, either connected the transportation oregon wrong the stadium. There was lone shared vexation betwixt each of america that the aesculapian squad should ne'er person allowed the subordinate to continue. 

'In airy of this, we impulse erstwhile coaches and players, and different nationalist figures successful the game, to defy the impulse to unreserved to judgement and fake quality online, particularly erstwhile they bash not person the afloat facts and context.

'Baseless and ill-informed outrage for the purposes of idiosyncratic social-media traction serves nary one, slightest of each the injured player. We telephone connected these influential voices to amusement the aforesaid respect for subordinate payment that they often request from others. Let interest travel earlier commentary.'

Shortly aft the speech betwixt Nuno and Marinakis, Neville had written connected societal media: 'Scandalous from that Forest owner. Nuno should spell and negociate his exit contiguous with him! The Forest fans, players and manager bash not merit that.'

To aggravate matters, the Awoniyi incidental came aft Anthony Elanga, whose transverse Awoniyi was chasing, was allowed to beforehand connected extremity contempt being intelligibly offside.

Play continued owed to the adjunct referee delaying raising the flag, arsenic officials person been instructed to do.

The 2 dropped points could beryllium important for Forest. Even if they triumph their 2 remaining matches, they are relying connected others to driblet points to marque the Champions League places.