2023-12-20 21:11:15
Arrested on December 16 due to the discomfort of Luton captain Tom Lockyer, the meeting between Bournemouth and Luton will be replayed in full.
The English football championship match between Bournemouth and Luton, stopped on Saturday following the heart attack of a Luton player, Tom Lockyer, will be completely replayed, the English Professional League announced on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old Luton defender and captain collapsed on the pitch on the hour mark, with the score at 1-1. Victim of a heart attack, he was treated on site by emergency teams before being hospitalized. The match, counting for the 17th day, will be replayed in its entirety on a date which will be specified later, the Premier League said in a press release. “The decision to stop the match in the 59th minute was taken collectively by the officials, players, coaches of both clubs and the Premier League“, she justifies.
The management of the Luton club indicated after his hospitalization that his captain was “in a stable state“. In a statement released on Monday, she stressed that she would not make “continuous commentary» about his state of health. This is not the first time that Tom Lockyer, Welsh international, has collapsed in the middle of a match: last May at Wembley, he had already suffered discomfort during the Premier League promotion duel between his club and Coventry. He then underwent surgery to correct a heart defect, atrial fibrillation, which causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate.
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