ARSENAL have insisted all concussion protocols had been adopted to the e-book earlier than David Luiz was allowed to play on following a sickening conflict of heads with Raul Jimenez.
Gunners defender Luiz was left with blood seeping from a gash and took three minutes to rise from laying flat-out after the horror collision.
Luiz is handled pitchside after the conflict of headsCredit score: Getty Photos – Getty
It got here simply 5 minutes into the Premier League sport towards Wolves on the Emirates.
Jimenez was rushed to hospital having been given oxygen on the pitch for ten minutes earlier than being taken away on a stretcher.
However Brazilian Luiz was patched up with a bandage and allowed to renew play – despite the fact that blood continued to seep from his wound.
That raised considerations about whether or not he was match sufficient to play on.
However the Gunners insist all protocols and pointers had been appropriately adopted.
That will have meant membership physician Gary O’Driscoll having the ultimate say on whether or not the previous Chelsea star – who was finally substituted at half-time – would have been match to play on.
O’Driscoll is considered one of many nation’s main consultants in concussion in sport.
Luiz and Jimenez conflict headsCredit score: PA:Press Affiliation
FA and Premier League pointers make it clear if there’s the slighted ‘suspicion’ a participant is concussed they shouldn’t be allowed to play on.
Group medics are additionally inspired to seek the advice of video footage of the conflict to achieve a greater understanding of what occurred and the way the damage was sustained, moderately than simply take the phrase of the of a participant.
SunSport understands video was checked out on this event.
An replace in the course of the second half on Sky Sports activities claimed Jimenez was aware after being taken to hospital and was respsonding to therapy.
