{"id":884749,"date":"2026-01-13T08:12:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/major-fabian-schar-injury-update-from-sky-sports-brings-good-and-bad-news-on-thursday-night\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T08:12:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:12:42","slug":"major-fabian-schar-injury-update-from-sky-sports-brings-good-and-bad-news-on-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/13\/major-fabian-schar-injury-update-from-sky-sports-brings-good-and-bad-news-on-thursday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Fabian Schar injury update from Sky Sports brings good and bad news on Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A thrilling win on Wednesday night at St James\u2019 Park but a very concerning incident involving Fabian Schar.<\/p>\n<p>With the scores level at 2-2, an innocuous looking challenge involving Dominic Calvert-Lewin ended up leaving the Swiss defender in very evident agony.<\/p>\n<p>Fabian Schar frantically signalling for help as soon as he went down, with medical staff racing across the pitch to assist him.<\/p>\n<p>After lengthy treatment on the pitch, the Newcastle United defender stretchered off.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Ramsey coming on to replace him, with Lewis Miley moved to centre-back alongside Sven Botman, who had replaced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themag.co.uk\/tag\/malick-thiaw\">Malick Thiaw<\/a> at half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports now have an exclusive on Thursday night, revealing good and bad news on Fabian Schar.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Downie covers Newcastle United for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SkySports_Keith\">Sky Sports<\/a> and he reports that their information is that Schar has NOT broken his ankle.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter saying that tests have shown there is no break.<\/p>\n<p>However, the bad news is that Downie reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themag.co.uk\/tag\/fabian-schar\">Fabian Schar<\/a> will still be out for an <em>\u201cextended period, with the severity of the damage to ligaments still unknown.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themag.co.uk\/2026\/01\/newcastle-united-fan-writer-reaction-to-newcastle-4-leeds-3\/\">Newcastle 4 Leeds 3<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 Wednesday 7 January 2026 8.15pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Match Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Goals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Newcastle United<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Barnes 36, 90+12, Joelinton 54, Bruno 90+1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leeds United:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aaronson 32, 79, Calvert Lewin 45+5 pen<\/p>\n<p><strong>Possession<\/strong> was Newcastle 63% Leeds 37%<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total shots<\/strong> were Newcastle 18 Leeds 14<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shots on target<\/strong> were Newcastle 8 Leeds 6<\/p>\n<p><strong>Corners<\/strong> were Newcastle 8 Leeds 4<\/p>\n<p><strong>Touches in the opposition box<\/strong> Newcastle 37 Leeds 26<\/p>\n<p><strong>Newcastle team v Leeds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pope, Miley, Thiaw (Botman 46), Schar (Ramsey 76), Hall, Tonali (Livramento 46), Joelinton, Bruno, Barnes, Gordon (Jacob Murphy 81), Woltemade (Wissa 75)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unused subs:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ramsdale, Trippier, Willock, Alex Murphy<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Jackie Smithfield <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themag.co.uk\/2026\/01\/major-fabian-schar-injury-update-from-sky-sports-brings-good-and-bad-news-on-thursday-night\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thrilling win on Wednesday night at St James\u2019 Park but a very concerning incident involving Fabian Schar. With the scores level at 2-2, an innocuous looking challenge involving Dominic Calvert-Lewin ended up leaving the Swiss defender in very evident agony. Fabian Schar frantically signalling for help as soon as he went down, with medical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":884750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136369,182],"tags":[136368,5676],"class_list":{"0":"post-884749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fabian","8":"category-major","9":"tag-fabian","10":"tag-major"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}