Stanley Aborah "fine" after injury scare, says Mark Crossley

Notts County assistant manager Mark Crossley insists that Stanley Aborah's injury scare in Sunday's pre-season game against Blackburn Rovers is not worrying, and that the midfielder will be "fine" for Saturday's League Two opener at Yeovil Town.

Aborah was sensational in the centre of the park in the Meadow Lane friendly, but signalled to come off just before half-time and looked in distress as he walked off the pitch to a standing ovation.

Crossley sought to calm down fears of a long injury lay-off, telling reporters: "He's fine. He was excellent in that first half, he's going to be a very important player for us.

"You can see he is a little bit higher up the pitch than he was last year, that's where the manager thinks he's the most effective.

"And we expect the players around him to realise that he's probably one of our most effective players and a lot of the game is going to revolve around him.

"He's fine injury-wise. He's had a little knock, but he'll be fine. It was just precautionary that he came off the pitch.

"He won't be out. He wanted to stay on actually, but the most important thing is next Saturday not a friendly game where you could go on and make it worse, so we just decided to bring him off the pitch and prepare for Yeovil."

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