{"id":456097,"date":"2023-08-23T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456097"},"modified":"2023-08-23T13:07:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:07:27","slug":"vunipola-to-miss-world-cup-opener-after-suspension","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/vunipola-to-miss-world-cup-opener-after-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Vunipola to miss World Cup opener after suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Vunipola will miss England&#8217;s opening game at the World Cup against Argentina after receiving a red card in a preparation match against Ireland.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Billy Vunipola is set to miss England&#39;s first World Cup match after being banned following his red card against Ireland \ud83d\udfe5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C20SAZa9We\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/C20SAZa9We<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1694262462197969285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was initially shown a yellow card for high challenge on Andrew Porter, which eventually became red after review.<\/p>\n<p>Vunipola will receive 3 match ban, but that can be downgraded if he completes the World Rugby coaching programme on tackling.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s final game before the World Cup is against Fiji on Saturday and head-coach Steve Borthwick will have to use to find adequate replacement for Vunipola.<\/p>\n<p>Borthwick will be also without captain Owen Farrell after the appeal of overturning his red card against Wales failed.<\/p>\n<p>World Cup in France kicks off on September 8 and on the next day England face Argentina for their opening game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Vunipola will miss England&#8217;s opening game at the World Cup against Argentina after receiving a red card in a preparation match against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":456098,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[21075],"acf":{"announce":"A heartbreak for the 30-year-old, who was sent off against Ireland","video":["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\/456097"}],"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=456097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456097"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456097"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}