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"We checked Savage out with our doctor and physios who think that if we had a game on Wednesday - or even next Saturday - then he would be struggling to play," said Blues manager Steve Bruce.
"He's going down to Wales to be checked out by their doctors but I think it would be absolutely ridiculous for him to make an eight-hour flight given the kind of injury he has got."
"After all the carry-on we have had with this particular issue, I want to stress that the injury is genuine. There is no way that I would take Robbie off with 15 minutes to go if his legs were okay.
"He is very sore and you can see he was limping around the pitch so I had no alternative but Wales are quite welcome to inspect him themselves."
Wales' manager Mark Hughes had been involved in a bitter battle with Blues in a bid to prevent Savage from playing by trying to invoke the FIFA four-day rule and only a last-ditch appeal to FIFA delayed Savage's departure to join the Wales squad long enough for him to turn out against Fulham at St Andrews on Sunday.
FULHAM MATCH REPORT
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