Richard Keogh: Derby County defender prepared to play with broken hand for Republic of Ireland in Euro 2020 qualifiers
Richard Keogh is willing to play with a broken hand as the Republic of Ireland are set to begin their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.The Derby County defender broke a bone in his right hand on Wednesday during their Championship stalemate against Stoke City.Richard Keogh broke his hand while playing for Derby1
Richard Keogh broke his hand while playing for Derby
The 32-year-old chose not to have surgery as that would have ruled him out for the matches against Gibraltar and Georgia.Keogh said: “I went for the X-ray and at first they were talking about surgery.“This was before I spoke to the hand surgeon and I didn’t particularly want to do that, I wanted to get his opinion first before I did anything.

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“When I spoke to him, I just said, ‘Listen, if there’s a chance of me playing, I just want to carry on playing if that’s at all possible. I don’t want to have surgery’. I’d rather just take the risk, I suppose, and just crack on.“He saw the X-ray and said, ‘I think we can do that’. If it hadn’t been the middle of my finger where it’s protected by the other two, I think I might have had to have surgery and been out for bit.“But fingers crossed, with this now, I can just resume training, playing and carry on, so it worked out well in the end.” If selected, Keogh will wear a protective cast, insisting he has not taken any risks by declaring himself available.He said: “I had a good conversation with him [the hand surgeon], and he said he’s seen this injury a few times and people have played with it.”

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