{"id":454168,"date":"2023-08-08T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454168"},"modified":"2023-08-08T07:25:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T11:25:50","slug":"christopher-nkunku-to-undergo-knee-surgery-and-could-miss-4-months","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/christopher-nkunku-to-undergo-knee-surgery-and-could-miss-4-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nkunku to undergo knee surgery and could miss 4 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s new signing Chrostopher Nkunku will need a knee surgery after sustaining an injury in a friendly against Borussia Dortmund last week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chelsea confirm Christopher Nkunku has undergone surgery to his knee injury sustained in Chicago. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udd35 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#CFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New signing could be out for up to 16 weeks. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fbI36rppl1\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fbI36rppl1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1688868424997351424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman damaged the meniscus in his knee and faces a potential recovery of up to four months.<\/p>\n<p>The news is a major blow to Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s aspirations as the \u00a353m-man looks unlikely to play before December and he was expecting to lead Chelsea&#8217;s forces up front.<\/p>\n<p>Nkunku was one of Chelsea&#8217;s star performers in the pre-season tour, bagging 3 goals after being acquired from RB Leipzig this summer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The doctors are checking him hopefully it is not a big issue but when he fell in the action maybe it was a penalty. Had the chance to score.&#8221; Pochettino said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He feels something in his knee but hopefully it is not a big issue and that he can be [back] quickly with the team. Now we need a few days to assess him and until we get back to London it is difficult to know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea&#8217;s new signing Chrostopher Nkunku will need a knee surgery after sustaining an injury in a friendly against Borussia Dortmund last week. Chelsea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":454169,"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":"Chelsea dealt an injury blow as their new signing faces a long recovery","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\/454168"}],"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\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454168"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454168"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}