Al-Ahly of Egypt striker, Junior Oluwafemi Ajayi has suffered a serious injury that is expected to rule him out of action with his team until March 2021 at the earliest, megasportsarena.com.
This comes after the former youth international missed his team’s opening league match of the season on Sunday and the Egyptian giant club, which recently won the CAF Champions League, went on to confirm that Ajayi will most likely spend up to three months out on the sidelines.
The verdict of the club’s medical crew is that Ajayi would need that length of time to adequately and fully treat an ankle injury he copped in the CAF final, which The Red Devils’ director of football, Sayed Abdel Hafeez says was responsible for the 24-year-old attacker’s absence at the start of the Egyptian Premier League season last weekend.
Ajayi, who played for 36 Lion FCj of Lagos and Shooting Stars of Ibadan before moving to SC Sfaxien of Tunisia and eventually joined Al-Ahly on a three-year contract in February 2016, has thrived in Egypt with four Premier League titles, two Egyptian Cups, two Egyptian Super Cups and a CAF Champions League trophy to his honours’ list.
However, he last played for Pitso Mosimane’s side in their continental cup final triumph over Cairo rivals, Zamalek on November 27, when he layed for 67 minutes before he was substituted; but he is now down with a similar scenario he suffered two years ago, when a knee ligament injury ruled him out of action for the first five months of the 2018/19 season.
The youthful attacker was missing when Ahly kicked off their domestic title defence with a 3-1 victory over Misr Lel Makasa, after which Abdel-Hafeez told King Fut: “Ajayi will be absent for a long period of time that could extend to three months, due to the injury. Ajayi’s injury is not related to his Achilles tendon, but to the ankle.”
