Source : ABC NEWS
The Matildas will nervously await scans on Tameka Yallop’s right hamstring after she was injured in Brisbane Roar’s final match of the A-League Women season.
Yallop limped off the field and was treated behind the goal as she clutched at her right hamstring in the 89th minute of the Roar’s 2—0 loss to the Victory in Melbourne on Saturday.
The veteran midfielder tried to hobble to the bench with help but could not put any weight on her right leg and was ultimately piggy-backed to the change rooms.
While the Roar could not make finals, a serious injury would rule Yallop — who has been in dazzling form and scored 12 goals this season — out of Australia’s May and June friendlies against Argentina.
Yallop’s injury comes just three days after confirmation of Mary Fowler’s devastating ACL tear.
“I think it’s her hammy,” Roar coach Alex Smith said of Yallop’s injury.
“So we’ll get back to Brisbane, she’ll get a scan on Monday or Tuesday, and then we’ll go from there.
“Until we get that, we don’t really know any more.
“She said it locked out a little bit, so we just need to figure out why that is, and if it’s bad, it’s bad.
“It just kind of sums up the game, sums up 2025 for our football club.
“But we’ll just have to wait and see.”
The match was a dead rubber because the Victory could not leapfrog premiers Melbourne City, nor be overtaken in second place, while the seventh-placed Roar had already missed finals.
AAP
