{"id":62480,"date":"2018-11-18T12:24:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62480"},"modified":"2018-11-18T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-18T11:25:05","slug":"epl-manchester-united-suffer-heavy-injury-blow-ahead-of-crystal-palace-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62480","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Manchester United suffer heavy injury blow ahead of Crystal Palace clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/EPL-Gary-Neville-advises-Mourinho-on-dropping-Lukaku.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester United have suffered a heavy injury blow as main striker, Rumelu Lukaku, will miss Belgium\u2019s crunch clash with Switzerland after being withdrawn from the squad.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium confirmed Lukaku was unable to play in Thursday\u2019s Group 2 victory over Iceland due to an ongoing hamstring problem.<\/p>\n<p>A brief statement from Belgium stated, \u201cLukaku did not travel with us today. He is still injured (hamstring) and will miss Switzerland versus Belgium.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Everton attacker is believed to have undergone treatment for his hamstring problem at the Move To Cure clinic in Antwerp last week.<\/p>\n<p>It is the same clinic he visited last season when he was battling an ankle injury ahead of the FA Cup final.<\/p>\n<p>The player was unable to train with his Belgium teammates and is now a significant doubt for United\u2019s first game after the international break.<\/p>\n<p>His injury will prove problematic for Jose Mourinho ahead of facing Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>Lukaku\u2019s setback coincides with injuries to both Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial, who were forced to withdraw from France\u2019s latest squad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United have suffered a heavy injury blow as main striker, Rumelu Lukaku, will miss Belgium\u2019s crunch clash with Switzerland after being withdrawn from the squad. Belgium confirmed Lukaku was unable to play in Thursday\u2019s Group 2 victory over Iceland due to an ongoing hamstring problem. A brief statement from Belgium stated, \u201cLukaku did not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55512,"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":[1406],"class_list":["post-62480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62480","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=62480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}