Ruan Pienaar could be back with Ulster in time for crucial European fixtures
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By Jonathan Bradley
– 17 September 2014It was confirmed yesterday that the influential star, who had been expected to miss up to two months, will instead be out for between four and six weeks and now faces a race against time to be fit for Ulster's crucial European Rugby Champions Cup games with Leicester and Toulon next month.
Pienaar sustained a medial collateral ligament sprain after a collision with team-mate Duane Vermuelen in his country's Rugby Championship defeat to New Zealand on Saturday and, with the 30-year-old needing to be carried from the f…
– 17 September 2014It was confirmed yesterday that the influential star, who had been expected to miss up to two months, will instead be out for between four and six weeks and now faces a race against time to be fit for Ulster's crucial European Rugby Champions Cup games with Leicester and Toulon next month.
Pienaar sustained a medial collateral ligament sprain after a collision with team-mate Duane Vermuelen in his country's Rugby Championship defeat to New Zealand on Saturday and, with the 30-year-old needing to be carried from the f…