SHANGHAI - Former Chelsea striker Demba Ba suffered a horror broken leg in the Shanghai derby at the weekend, with his coach warning the injury could end the 31-year-old's playing career. "If I can choose, I'd rather lose the match than lose Demba Ba," Manzano was quoted as saying by the Shanghai Daily newspaper. SIPG's coach, the former England boss Sven-Goran Eriksson, expressed sympathy, according to the Shanghai Daily, saying: "It was a bad injury. Sun's leg hooked onto Ba's, instantly snapping the limb and sending him crashing to the ground as it flopped loosely, gruesome television footage showed. "Football is unfair sometimes to let such a terrible thing happen to such a good man... That was the kind of terrible foul that could end a player's career."

Source: Bangkok Post July 18, 2016 03:11 UTC