The Red Bulls suffered a big blow this week after the club announced star forward Lewis Morgan would be out for at least six weeks after undergoing surgery on his left knee.
Morgan suffered the injury during team training the day before the Red Bulls’ home opener against Nashville SC on March 1.
He has missed the club’s last two matches.
Red Bulls head coach Sandro Schwarz has been somewhat vague about Morgan’s return before Wednesday’s team announcement.
He had labeled Lewis as week-to-week and confirmed that the latest issue wasn’t related to his surgically repaired hip that plagued him in 2023.
That injury limited Lewis to just five MLS matches that year and set the stage for an MLS Comeback Player of the Year Award-worthy season in 2024 when he led the teams in goals with 13 as the Red Bulls made it to the MLS Cup Final for the first time since 2008.
Schwarz said during his weekly pre-match press conference last week that Morgan had been handling the latest setback well.
“We are in very good conversations with Lewis. Our medical staff is in very good conversations with him,” Schwarz said at the time. “He’s a very professional player, he’s a very professional guy and he’s working very seriously with the whole medical team.”
The Red Bulls turned Mohammed Sofo in the home opening win to replace Morgan — the 20-year-old ended up scoring his first MLS goal in his first career start — and went to 16-year-old wunderkind Julian Hall to fill the void in last weekend’s 0-0 draw with Atlanta.
Morgan signed a two-year contract extension before the start of the season that comes with options for 2027 and 2028.
