Keeper set to come back after horror head injury
KAMIL Grabara is poised to return to match action for Huddersfield Town.
The 21-year-old Polish stopper, who is on a season-long loan from Liverpool, suffered a horrible head injury in Town’s Championship win at Hull City last month.
In a collision with skipper Christopher Schindler, Grabara suffered a head injury, concussion and bleed on the brain and left the KCOM Stadium pitch on a stretcher and with a neck brace applied.
Since then he has followed all the medical protocols and returned to the training ground at PPG Canalside a couple of weeks ago.
He was due to play against Bradford City last week but the game fell victim to bad weather.
Now, he is in line to play against Blackpool Reserves in the Central League tomorrow (1pm) at Canalside.
“Kamil has trained regularly over the last two weeks and he is now fully fit and available to play,” explained Cowley.
“Our ideal is for him to play in a game and he is chomping at the bit.
“With the nature of the collision it would be nice for him to have a game to then be available for actual first-team selection.
“He was due to play last Tuesday, against Bradford City, but unfortunately that was called off because of a waterlogged pitch.
“But there is this game coming up on Tuesday which he will play in and then, from there, we can see if he’s available for team selection.”
Cowley signed Everton keeper Jonas Lossl on loan to cover for Grabara’s absence.
Joel Coleman has been a regular on the bench.
Cowley added: “He (Grabara) is fit now and available for selection but, psychologically, especially for a young goalkeeper having probably his first head collision, when you leave the pitch on a stretcher and in a neck brace I just think it would be nice for him to have a game - just for confidence purposes.”
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