SWISS BIG MISS FOR BOSS BIELSA

LEEDS have been rocked by the news that defender Gaetano Berardi faces a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

The Swiss defender (above) was forced off in the Championship match against Ipswich – only two games into his return from a knee injury that had ruled him out since August.

And, ahead of tomorrow’s fixture with Wigan, Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa (below) confirmed that his 30-year-old star will be missing for a long time.

“It will be a lot of time,” the Argentine said. “It’s not a simple injury.

“I don’t know how to explain it – the level of the tendon, the muscle, went to the other way, as if the muscle had turned around the tendon.”

Berardi suffered a nasty knee injury against Middlesbrough in August and missed all of September and the first half of October.