Doctors in Beijing have mended Guinea international Ousmane Bangoura's ruptured right eyeball in the second surgery to avoid the worst possible result.

Details of the surgery were not revealed by doctors in the Third Hospital affiliated to Beijing University nor by Bangoura's club Shenyang Jinde, Chinese web portal Sina.com reported Tuesday.

But sources inside the club said that at least doctors can keep Bangoura's right eye from removal.

The 26-year-old Shenyang Jinde midfielder suffered two cuts in his eyeball after being caught in the face by Qingdao Zhongneng's Lu Gang in a Chinese Super League soccer match on Friday, Jinde club's Web site said.

He had his first operation in Shenyang and was then transferred to Beijing.

Bangoura joined Shenyang from Belgium's Charleroi in April after playing a leading role in Guinea's march to the quarter-finals of the African Nations Cup earlier this year.

The match ended in a 2-2 draw. Lu received a yellow card for the incident.

Source: Xinhua