That training mishap followed the withdrawal of top striker Roland Kollman for Saturday's Cardiff match.
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Indeed, top striker Paddy Flannery has now agreed a new, three-year deal.
Despite being the top striker at Ajax, he will be denied first team football until at least the new season in six months time.
Even at the 2002 Nations Cup finals - where the Eagles soared to the semifinals - the lack of a top striker was obvious.
He has established himself as Mallorca's top striker and also had a brilliant Confederations Cup in France last summer, helping Cameroon to reach the final.
But it was Cyprus who started the brighter at the Neo GSP Stadium, as the home side made light of the injury-enforced absence of top striker Michael Constantinou.
The new coach will be hoping that his top striker Emmanuel Adebayor will be back to full fitness for that match, he is nearing a return to action for his English Premier League club Arsenal.
Spain showed at the Euros that it can win without a top-drawer central striker.
Ferguson is likely to add to his squad when the transfer window comes into effect in January with a new striker his top priority.
Chelsea flaunts 11 top foreigners, including Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba and Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech.
The Monaco and Togo striker has been in top form for club and country.
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New boss Mackay has only 15 recognised first-team players at Cardiff after Conway's arrival as 12 players left the club after last season's failed play-off campaign, including last season's top scorer Jay Bothroyd and fellow striker Michael Chopra.
Raja's Moroccan international striker Mustapha Bidoudane finished as top scorer of the season with 13 goals.
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Kurtz's top priority will be Nando Rafael, the striker who plays for Bundesliga outfit Hertha Berlin.
The 25-year-old striker, League One's top scorer, was the subject of a failed bid by Premier League side Blackpool.
Striker Jon Daly is currently joint top of the League Two scoring charts, thanks in large part to a burst of seven goals in eight days.
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He's a fantastic player, top scorer and everything we'd want in a striker, so there's no change there.
Cole and Vidic continued their personal duel with the Serbian defender again coming out on top as another last-ditch tackle denied the England striker a clear sight on goal.
The striker turned and fired an unstoppable shot into the top corner of the net from 25 yards.
Mikkelsen again thwarted Lafferty after 58 minutes when he clawed out the striker's header which was arrowing into the top corner.
The Baggies are bottom of the Premier League and in dire need of a reliable striker, having netted only 17 goals in 21 top-flight games this term, especially with frontman Ishmael Miller is out for the season because of a knee ligament injury.
Fittingly the winning goal was bagged by striker Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, the club's top scorer this season, who claimed his 25th goal of the campaign.
Williams had been linked with a big-money move to top clubs in England when he emerged as a free-scoring striker with Stirling Albion as a teenager.
Players missing include defensive stalwarts Igor Tudor of Juventus and Bayern Munich's Robert Kovac, top scorer Davor Suker, now with 1860 Munich, and Middlesbrough striker Alen Boksic.
Bangor, meanwhile, have lost striker Marc Lloyd-Williams - last season's top scorer in the League of Wales and runner-up in Europe's Golden Shoe table of goal scorers - to Nationwide Conference side Southport.
The 24-year-old Spain striker was at the centre of speculation that he was a top target for Scolari, along with AC Milan's Brazil superstar Kaka.
Heskey should have doubled England's advantage two minutes later, but he headed over the top after Rooney's cross left the goal at the Aston Villa striker's mercy.
Colombian striker Radamel Falcao scored twice to overtake Lionel Messi at the top of La Liga's scoring charts, with Atletico's thirteen points now just two fewer than Barcelona.
Striker Jay Bothroyd is also among those expected to rekindle interest from top-flight clubs after the Bluebirds' hopes were dashed.
Striker Ricardo Fuller also received an award for being the club's top goalscorer.
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