{"id":10219,"date":"2021-01-10T23:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T17:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=84614"},"modified":"2021-01-10T23:16:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T17:46:34","slug":"former-england-international-and-pundit-carlton-palmer-thinks-injured-virgil-van-dijk-can-return-before-the-end-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/former-england-international-and-pundit-carlton-palmer-thinks-injured-virgil-van-dijk-can-return-before-the-end-of-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England international and pundit Carlton Palmer thinks injured Virgil Van Dijk can return before the end of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"f\">\u00a0<\/span>In an exclusive interview with Football FanCast, former footballer and current pundit Carlton Palmer spoke about Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk\u2019s possible return from injury. The Dutch defender has been out of action since October 17 due to a cruciate knee ligament damage that he suffered against Everton in the Merseyside Derby. Arguably Liverpool\u2019s and probably the Premier League\u2019s best defender, Van Dijk has been a major miss for the current champions.<\/p>\n<p>Palmer spoke about Van Dijk returning to action in a few months. He said, <strong>\u201cFrom what I\u2019m seeing from him, he\u2019s on the bike now and he\u2019s started to jog a bit,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf he\u2019s into straight-line running, you would think in the next month to two months (he could be back) \u2013 he\u2019s an exceptional athlete and a consummate pro.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Palmer also mentioned that Alan Shearer had the same injury and the striker returned earlier than expected as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIf you look, in the past at Alan Shearer having a cruciate [injury], I think Shearer was back in record time because he looks after himself and keeps himself fit, players like that do recover quicker from injury.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0In an exclusive interview with Football FanCast, former footballer and current pundit Carlton Palmer spoke about Liverpool defender Virgil Van\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":32727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[219,218,1286],"class_list":["post-10219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-liverpool","tag-premier-league","tag-virgil-van-dijk"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}