The Scotland international has scored four goals for the Tigers in all competitions this season.
Hull City have been rocked by yet another major injury blow, after the club’s official Twitter account confirmed that winger Robert Snodgrass sustained ankle ligament damage in Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to Stoke City and will be out of action for up to four weeks.
Scotland international Snodgrass has been in fine form for both club and country this season, registering four goals for the Tigers to date and also netting a hat-trick during Scotland’s 5-1 World Cup qualifying victory over Malta in September.
Unfortunately for the beleaguered Tigers’ caretaker manager Mike Phelan, the former Norwich City man was forced from the field after he went down in searing pain during Hull’s home defeat to Mark Hughes’ Potters at the weekend, and the 29-year-old was later pictured leaving the KCOM Stadium on crutches, leaving fans sweating over his fitness.
However, Phelan and the Hull City fans’ worst fears have now been confirmed, and Snodgrass will join key men Moses Odubajo and Andrew Robertson on the treatment table, as Phelan is dealt another significant obstacle in his unenviable attempts to turn around the Tigers’ dismal form.
Early relegation favourites Hull surprised fans and pundits alike by winning their first two games back in the Premier League, despite a staggering failure to recruit new players leaving caretaker manager Phelan with a threadbare squad, however, since their early season heroics, it has all been downhill.
The Tigers have plummeted down the table with every passing week and they currently find themselves sitting perilously in the relegation zone, after an abject run of form which has seen them take just one point from their last eight games.
Snodgrass’s untimely injury also deals a huge blow to his international side Scotland, with Gordon Strachan’s men set to take on fierce rivals England at Wembley in a pivotal World Cup qualifying fixture on November 11th, a titanic game which the influential Hull City man is now set to miss.
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