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Twitter reacts as Man Utd's Antonio Valencia suffers gruesome eye injury
ANTONIO VALENCIA showed his warrior spirit on Wednesday night by playing on after suffering a gruesome injury in a clash with Arsenal loanee Joel Campbell.
Valencia and Campbell clashed heads early in the game and Valencia's eye swelled to the point where it was almost completely closed.
But instead of looking towards the substitute's bench Valencia insisted on playing on for the beleaguered Red Devils.
Manchester United fans have sometimes been accused of being one-eyed in their support of their team, and it seems that on Wednesday they had a winger to match.
And Twitter couldn't avoid taking aim at Valencia's misfortune as you can see below.
Valencia's been basically playing with one foot all of his career. One eye won't be missed.
— ProudRed (@ProudRed85) March 19, 2014
Antonio Valencia's got one eye on the next round, you feel.
— Football Clichés (@FootballCliches) March 19, 2014
Antonio Valencia still carries on! He looks like he's just gone 15 rounds with Muhammad Ali. Though I doubt he'll last.
— Param Chandarana (@paramchandarana) March 19, 2014