Wolves defender Mosquera set to miss rest of season

Wolves defender Yerson Mosquera is expected to miss the remainder of the play with a superior genu injury.

The 23-year-old was carried disconnected successful the 82nd infinitesimal of Saturday's 3-1 decision astatine Aston Villa aft being caught by Morgan Rogers and twisting his knee.

The Colombia planetary has undergone scans to find the severity of the wounded and volition present necessitate an operation.

Wolves' caput of precocious show Phil Hayward said: "Yerson has present had each of the assorted assessments and scans which unluckily corroborate injuries to the medial collateral ligament (MCL) and the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).

"We volition beryllium visiting specialists successful the coming days to finalise the program for surgery; this volition instrumentality spot successful the adjacent 2 weeks.

"Timescales are hard to authorities anterior to country but it is highly improbable helium volition diagnostic again this season."

Mosquera has started each 5 of Wolves' Premier League games this word aft spending past twelvemonth connected indebtedness astatine Villarreal successful La Liga.

Wolves were already abbreviated successful defence having failed to bring successful a replacement for skipper Max Kilman aft his £40m determination to West Ham successful the summer.

The wounded adds to brag Gary O'Neil's problems with his broadside winless and bottommost of the Premier League going into Saturday's lucifer astatine location to Liverpool.