Croatia boss Slaven Bilic doesn't blame Birmingham City defender Martin Taylor for Arsenal striker Eduardo da Silva's horror broken-leg injury.

"The injury made the tackle look bad," Bilic told BBC Five Live. "You see many tackles like that, almost every week.

"That's perhaps wrong for football but I'm sure Martin Taylor is a sportsman and he wanted to play the ball.

"On another occasion Eduardo could have received a worse tackle and got away without injury - everything went wrong but Eduardo knows Taylor didn't do it deliberately."