{"id":474434,"date":"2023-12-29T17:09:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=474434"},"modified":"2023-12-29T17:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T21:09:44","slug":"tuilagi-to-miss-england-start-of-6-nations-because-of-injury","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tuilagi-to-miss-england-start-of-6-nations-because-of-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuilagi to miss England start of 6 Nations because of injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Manu Tuilagi will be sidelined for the beginning of England&#8217;s 6 Nations season with a groin problem.<\/p>\n<p>Manu sustained a grade 3 tear in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of Sale&#8217;s 22-20 Premiership victory against Saracens at the Salford Community Stadium a few days ago.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Manu Tuilagi will miss England\u2019s 2024 Six Nations opener against Italy due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Tuilagi sustained a grade 3 groin tear for Sale playing against Saracens and will be out of action for at least 6 weeks \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>Who will start in the centres for England in round 1 with Tuilagi\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tTDqxE4Uzq\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tTDqxE4Uzq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RugbyPass (@RugbyPass) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RugbyPass\/status\/1740737978538799493?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Tuilagi, who has played 60 matches for the English National Rugby team, has suffered by a long-term groin injury at the beginning of his career.<\/p>\n<p>The problem most likely means that the centre will be unavailable for England\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at the tournament vs. Italy at the Italian capital on February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>. England\u2019s next match at the Six Nations is against Wales at Twickenham next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Tuilagi has pulled his groin, and we believe he&#8217;s going to be back during the 6 Nations, but not for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> match of England,&#8221; Sale director of rugby Alex Sanderson admitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre Manu Tuilagi will be sidelined for the beginning of England&#8217;s 6 Nations season with a groin problem. Manu sustained a grade 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":474435,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16877,20851],"news_category":[20810],"gn_keywords":[18341,22471,20852],"acf":{"announce":"The centre likely to miss the start of the Six Nations.","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\/474434"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474438,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/474434\/revisions\/474438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474434"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=474434"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=474434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}