{"id":23616,"date":"2024-03-24T05:02:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-man-city-suffer-fresh-injury-blow-ahead-of-arsenal-clash\/"},"modified":"2024-03-24T05:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:02:41","slug":"epl-man-city-suffer-fresh-injury-blow-ahead-of-arsenal-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/epl-man-city-suffer-fresh-injury-blow-ahead-of-arsenal-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Man City suffer fresh injury blow ahead of Arsenal clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Manchester City defender, Kyle Walker was forced off during England\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Brazil on Saturday, in what is an injury blow ahead of their crucial Premier League clash with Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Walker picked up what appeared to be a hamstring problem and was substituted in the first half of the friendly at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>City host the Gunners at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday, with both teams separated by one point at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know [how serious it is].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s not had many injuries so he\u2019s not sure if it\u2019s just tightness or something more serious. We\u2019ll know more over the next few days,\u201d England manager, Gareth Southgate, told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, named England captain for the match, appeared to pick up an injury after sprinting back to clear Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior\u2019s goal-bound effort off the line.<\/p>\n<p>EPL: Man City suffer fresh injury blow ahead of Arsenal clash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City defender, Kyle Walker was forced off during England\u2019s 1-0 defeat to Brazil on Saturday, in what is an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4130,194,1031,15,160],"tags":[237,1033,156,202,180,201],"class_list":["post-23616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal","category-epl","category-man-city","category-news","category-sport","tag-arsenal","tag-city","tag-epl","tag-man","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}