Brighton's O'Riley set for surgery after injury

Brighton midfielder Matt O'Riley will acquisition room connected his ankle aft suffering a "bad" wounded connected his debut for nan club.

The Denmark world was forced disconnected little than 10 minutes into his debut against Crawley connected Tuesday aft being connected nan receiving extremity of a crunching tackle.

O'Riley, 23, completed a £25m move to Brighton from Celtic connected Monday.

Brighton head Fabian Hurzeler described nan tackle from Crawley's Jay Williams arsenic "ridiculous" aft nan 4-0 triumph and says nan midfielder is now group for a stint connected nan sidelines.

"It is for illustration we expected, it is simply a bad wounded and he needs room connected his ankle," said Hurzeler.

"I can’t opportunity really agelong aliases erstwhile we expect him to beryllium backmost because of rehabilitation. It is simply a reliable 1 for america but we will effort to support him nan champion we can."

Hurzeler added that O'Riley was "very disappointed" but said nan midfielder will beryllium "back stronger".

Scotland midfielder Billy Gilmour has been linked pinch an exit from Brighton earlier nan transportation model closes connected Friday, with Napoli interested.

Hurzeler says nan nine will reappraisal their plans for Gilmour successful ray of O'Riley's injury.