Gedson Fernandes has surgery on broken foot

Gedson Fernandes has under gone successful surgery to repair a broken bone in his right foot today. The surgery was to fix the fifth metatarsal on his right foot, which is the long bone on the outside of our foot that connects to the little toe. Benfica have not disclosed how Gedson suffered the injury but the midfielder looks set to miss two months for the club because of the injury. Gedson was recently a member of the disappointing U20 World Cup squad and was last in action on May 31.