Jonah Ayunga admits it was “frustrating” to not be able to contribute to St Mirren’s push for European football. The powerful striker was enjoying a dream debut season in Paisley after joining from Morecambe, having netted seven times – including against both sides of the Old Firm – to help the Buddies force their way towards the top six.
But his campaign came to a shuddering halt when he ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee in January while playing against Motherwell, a serious injury that required reconstructive surgery in March.
While the Saints still managed to march into the top six without him, 26-year-old Ayunga was gutted he couldn’t help his team-mates finish even higher and book a European adventure this summer.He told St Mirren TV: “The injury was initially at the end of January, around five months ago, and then I had the operation on the second of March.
I’m coming up to 18 weeks now since the operation.“It was a clean ACL, isolated with no other damage. It was a full rupture and for the repair they take the middle third of your patella tendon, with a bit of bone on either end, and reroute that where your old ACL was.
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