{"id":453738,"date":"2023-08-03T05:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T09:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=453738"},"modified":"2023-08-03T07:40:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T11:40:35","slug":"new-chelsea-striker-nkunku-injures-knee-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/new-chelsea-striker-nkunku-injures-knee-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"New Chelsea striker Nkunku injures knee in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s new signing Christopher Nkunku suffered a knee injury early in Wednesday&#8217;s pre-season draw with Borussia Dortmund at the Soldier Field stadium in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The French forward went down in the ninth minute of the 1-1 draw. Nkunku was signed for close to $76.19 million and the 25-year-old was later seen with an ice-pack strapped to his knee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The doctors are checking him and I hope it is not a big issue. He fell in the action which was maybe a penalty and he feels something in his knee, but we hope it is nothing big,&#8221; Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"et\">Pochettino updates on Nkunku&#8217;s injury. ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BluesInTheUSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BluesInTheUSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChelseaFC\/status\/1686945188818624514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We hope he can be back quickly with the team. We need a few days to assess him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s new signing Christopher Nkunku suffered a knee injury early in Wednesday&#8217;s pre-season draw with Borussia Dortmund at the Soldier Field stadium in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":453755,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16774,19983],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17902,19984],"acf":{"announce":"The French forward went down injured in the ninth minute against Dortmund ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/453738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453738"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=453738"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=453738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}