{"id":152741,"date":"2019-09-16T21:55:02","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152741"},"modified":"2019-09-16T22:43:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:43:21","slug":"champions-league-chelsea-suffer-triple-injury-blow-ahead-of-valencia-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=152741","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Chelsea suffer triple injury blow ahead of Valencia clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chelsea-lose-key-player-Daily-Post-Nigeria.png\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Chelsea could be without Antonio Rudiger, Emerson Palmieri and Ruben Loftus-Cheek due to injury when they take on Valencia in their UEFA Champions League opener on Tuesday night at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Rudiger, Palmieri and Loftus-Cheek missed the Blues\u2019 training on Monday morning ahead of Valencia clash.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea made this known in a statement on the club\u2019s official website on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of 22 players trained at Cobham this morning as Frank Lampard put his side through their paces ahead of our Champions League opener against Valencia on Tuesday, though Antonio Rudiger was absent following his half-time withdrawal at Wolves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe German started for the first time this season at Molineux after recovering from the knee injury sustained late last season, though he was replaced at the break by Kurt Zouma, with Lampard explaining afterwards that the centre-back had troubled a problem in his groin late in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmerson Palmieri and Ruben Loftus-Cheek were the other members of our Champions League A List squad to miss out on training ahead of matchday one, although there was better news with the sight of N\u2019Golo Kante, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Reece James joining the main group from the start,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>The kick-off time for the match is 8pm.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea could be without Antonio Rudiger, Emerson Palmieri and Ruben Loftus-Cheek due to injury when they take on Valencia in their UEFA Champions League opener on Tuesday night at Stamford Bridge. Rudiger, Palmieri and Loftus-Cheek missed the Blues\u2019 training on Monday morning ahead of Valencia clash. Chelsea made this known in a statement on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1397,12101],"class_list":["post-152741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}