Eoghan O’Connell suffers knee injury in Charlton’s 4-4 thriller against Ipswich Town

Charlton Athletic manager Ben Garner was unable to provide any major injury update on Eoghan O’Connell after the Irish centre-back was stretchered off in today’s 4-4 draw against Ipswich Town.

The summer signing from Rochdale has been a first-team regular since arriving in SE7.

But O’Connell went down in the first period and was unable to continue.

Mandela Egbo was an even earlier change in the 14th minute. The former Crystal Palace youngster tried to continue after needing treatment but then had to be replaced by Albie Morgan.

O’Connell seemed to suffer his problem as he attempted to shut down Tyreece John-Jules, who had been played in on goal by Sam Morsy.

“Eoghan was his knee,” said Garner. “We’ll have to assess and see.

“There’s nothing we can say now or know about it. Manny was a muscular one, I think it was his groin on a clearance.

“Fingers crossed nothing too serious because we’re not blessed with a huge squad and we’ve got three cup games now that we want to progress in. It will give an opportunity to rotate – it would’ve done a lot more but we’ve lost a couple now. We hope for good news on both of them.”