Earlier this week, in only his fifth match for the club, the 21-year-old’s meteoric launch came to an abrupt end after just nine minutes against Sheffield Wednesday when he screamed out in agony after injuring his groin and had to be replaced.<\/p>\n
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Norwich boss Philippe Clement, who is overseeing an injury crisis at the second-tier club, clarified on Friday that Tour\u00e9 was struggling with a groin problem and was going to be a big miss for them.<\/p>\n
“He has a muscle injury,” said the Belgian boss.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“He will be out four to six weeks. It’s a disappointing one, of course, because it’s also one nobody saw coming so fast in the game.<\/p>\n
“He was in full speed and then in a duel out of balance, so it’s really unlucky one, and we need to move on.”<\/p>\n
The injury means Tour\u00e9 looks likely to miss Australia’s World Cup send-off friendlies against Cameroon in Sydney on March 27 and Curacao in Melbourne four days later.<\/p>\n
But though it is disruptive to manager Tony Popovic’s preparations, at least it does not appear the injury is serious enough to keep Tour\u00e9 out of action for the tournament itself in June.<\/p>\n
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Mohamed Tour\u00e9 is set to be an important member of Australia’s World Cup squad. (Getty Images: Phil Walter)<\/p>\n
Tour\u00e9 is just one of a long list of Socceroos players who have all been battling injury concerns, including Lewis Miller, Harry Souttar, Craig Goodwin, Connor Metcalfe, Hayden Matthews, Noah Botic and Cammy Devlin.<\/p>\n
It is bad news too for Norwich, who currently have 13 players unavailable as they seek to steer clear of a relegation battle and look forward to a glamour FA Cup fifth-round tie next week at Premier League side Leeds.<\/p>\n
But Tour\u00e9 promised in an Instagram post that though he was “absolutely gutted” about the “minor setback”, he knew he would be back “stronger & better”.<\/p>\n
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