Samir Nasri's Bizarre Facial Expression, Leather Tabard Gets Twitter Talking

Poor Samir Nasri.

He was the victim of a horror challenge from Newcastle's Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa at the weekend in Manchester City 2-0 win on the road (watch it here). He now looks set to miss the rest of the season and the 2014 World Cup beyond that.

Set to find out the severity of his injury on Monday morning, the Frenchman was pictured outside Manchester City's training ground pulling an unfortunate face, which quickly spread around Twitter:

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Serious meme material right there pic.twitter.com/d2U7FM2fhI

— Back Page Football (@bpfootball) January 13, 2014"

By wearing whatever that thing is on the top half of his body (all we can safely say is that it's leather), he's not exactly helping himself.

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So, Samir Nasri wore a leather tabard to get his knee poor-poor checked out this morning... pic.twitter.com/YP1MqQiqxW (via @lxndrnthrtn)

— Who Ate All The Pies (@waatpies) January 13, 2014"

Still, for all that, let's hope Nasri gets some encouraging news when the scan results come back.

You can keep up with the latest on his health on our injury tracker.