{"id":161390,"date":"2019-10-19T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161390"},"modified":"2019-10-19T10:14:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T09:14:23","slug":"chelsea-vs-newcastle-lampard-gives-injury-update-ahead-of-epl-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=161390","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea vs Newcastle: Lampard gives injury update ahead of EPL clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has given injury updates ahead of Saturday\u2019s Premier League clash against Newcastle.<\/p>\n

The Blues go into the home fixture in fifth place, having gathered 14 points from their opening eight matches.<\/p>\n

Lampard will be without N\u2019Golo Kante, Andreas Chrisensen and Antonio Rudiger for the Magpies\u2019 visit.<\/p>\n

\u201cN\u2019Golo [Kante\u2019s] not fit. He had a small groin issue in the warm-up to the first international game for France. We didn\u2019t get him back until after the second game and he\u2019s not fit for Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Mateo] Kovacic had a knock on his thigh but has trained the last couple of days so he\u2019s in contention.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndreas Christensen has got a hamstring injury which will see him out for the next two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Antonio] Rudiger is training outside with the physios which is a progression for him. He a tough injury with some stop-start (features), which has been unfortunate for everybody.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut he\u2019s outside, it\u2019s positive \u2013 a bit of work to be done for him for match fitness but it\u2019s really positive for us that he\u2019s outside,\u201d he told reporters on Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chelsea manager, Frank Lampard, has given injury updates ahead of Saturday\u2019s Premier League clash against Newcastle. The Blues go into the home fixture in fifth place, having gathered 14 points from their opening eight matches. Lampard will be without N\u2019Golo Kante, Andreas Chrisensen and Antonio Rudiger for the Magpies\u2019 visit. \u201cN\u2019Golo [Kante\u2019s] not fit. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143061,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,1397,9512],"class_list":["post-161390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-chelsea","tag-epl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161390","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=161390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}