\n The goalkeeper landed awkwardly following an aerial collision during Saturday’s Championship clash against Millwall at The Den, which Wrexham won 2-0.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n He was knocked unconscious following the incident in added time and after having a lengthy spell of treatment on the pitch, was stretchered off and taken to hospital.\n<\/p>\n
\n Reds’ boss Phil Parkinson admitted post-match that he was ‘fearing the worst’ and those worries have been confirmed.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is really bad news for us with Danny and more importantly for himself,” said Parkinson.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is a dislocated elbow but when you do a dislocation, you have ligament damage which needs rectifying.\n<\/p>\n
\n “He faces an operation on Friday and he will obviously have a significant period of time out.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I think the specialist has said we won’t know until he has actually done the operation and put a timescale on that but obviously it is a serious injury and our thoughts are with Danny.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is part and parcel of football picking up injuries and he will come back at some point this season ready to play his part.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Ward rejoined home-town club Wrexham in the summer after leaving Leicester City and started the opening four league games of the campaign – Wrexham’s first season in the second tier for 43 years.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was named in Craig Bellamy’s 25-man squad for Wales’ crucial World Cup qualifier against Kazakhstan tomorrow and Parkinson felt the 32-year-old, competing with Leeds United stopper Carl Darlow, was in line for a starting place.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Danny was all set to go away with Wales,” said Parkinson.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I think the fact he had been playing (for Wrexham) has got him in a good place for getting back into the Welsh starting line-up.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I don’t know what Craig was thinking but it is so frustrating for us and for him.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The goalkeeping department was a problem we didn’t really need so late in the window.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Arthur Okonkwo or Callum Burton will take over between the posts when Wrexham return to action following the international break against QPR at The Racecourse on September 13.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We have got two great goalkeepers,” added Parkinson.\n<\/p>\n
\n “The save Arthur made when he came on (at Millwall for Ward), I’m not sure many other keepers make that save and Callum is a terrific goalkeeper.\n<\/p>\n
\n “When we brought Danny in, there was maybe talk of Callum going but I sat down with him and said I really wanted him to stay because I feel he has got a part to play.\n<\/p>\n
\n “If you look at the way he played when he got in the team last year, he was doing great.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goalkeeper landed awkwardly following an aerial collision during Saturday’s Championship clash against Millwall at The Den, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-130182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}