{"id":10962,"date":"2021-10-14T23:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=159514"},"modified":"2021-10-14T23:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T18:01:52","slug":"manchester-city-star-ferran-torres-ruled-out-for-few-weeks-following-a-fracture-to-his-foot-on-international-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/manchester-city-star-ferran-torres-ruled-out-for-few-weeks-following-a-fracture-to-his-foot-on-international-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City star Ferran Torres ruled out for few weeks following a fracture to his foot on international duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 21-year-old striker is set to sit out for at least a month due to his foot injury. Torres scored 2 goals in the semi-finals against Italy to make the UEFA nations league finals and is suspected to have the injury during that match, he was cleared for the finals but unfortunately lost to France 2-1. His small fracture in the right foot will make Liverpool vulnerable to upcoming important matches.<\/p>\n<p>He will miss the Manchester derby against Manchester United and will most certainly be absent during the UCL matchup against Messi, Mbappe, and Neymar\u2019s PSG, while Spain faces Greece and Sweden next month\u2019s World Cup qualifiers. Torres has reached City and is being evaluated by the team doctors. Due to Pep\u2019s shortages in the forward position and failing to sign back Sergio Aguero and now losing Ferran Torres due to injury for a month, the 3rd place City will now have to adjust with Gabriel Jesus playing as a striker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFerran Torres has suffered an injury to his right foot whilst on international duty,\u201d a City statement said on Thursday. The forward, who was approved fit to be played against the Nation League champions France, is set to go through further examinations add will be kept scrutinized as stated by the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain\u2019s forward and City\u2019s star striker Ferran Torres broke his foot during the semi-finals against Italy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":33438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[728,449,487,220,1205,249,2053,706],"class_list":["post-10962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-ferran-torres","tag-kylian-mbappe","tag-lionel-messi","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-manchester-derby","tag-manchester-united","tag-neymar-jr","tag-uefa-nations-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}