martin skrtel was carried off on a stretcher early on in liverpool's fa cup quarter final against blackburn, after landing awkwardly on his head the slovakian defender needed eight minutes of treatment on the pitch, and was carried away wearing a neck brace and has been taken to hospital as a precaution skrtel landed on his head after being caught in the face by an innocuous looking challenge from rudy gestede in just the second minute of the game video scroll down to see brendan rodgers give an update on skrtel's conditionâ  martin skrtel was knocked unconscious after falling awkwardly following a challenge with rudy gestede 
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martin skrtel clashes with rudy gestede in the air in second minute . defender landed on his head and appeared to lose consciousness . but after treatment skrtel gave thumbs up from the stretcherâ 