{"id":12278,"date":"2023-03-29T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=293325"},"modified":"2023-03-29T13:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T08:00:17","slug":"premier-league-tottenham-confirms-emerson-royal-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/premier-league-tottenham-confirms-emerson-royal-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League \u2013 Tottenham confirms Emerson Royal knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"60350d5b-69ef-4a42-a7f7-01f2c5967bbf\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Tottenham\u2019s statement confirms Emerson Royal\u2019s injury. The club states, \u201cwe can confirm that Emerson Royal suffered a meniscus injury in his left knee while playing for the Brazilian national team last week. The defender will undergo surgery before rehab with our medical team.\u201d During the stoppage time of Brazil\u2019s 2-1 friendly defeat by Morocco on Saturday, he suffered an injury in the final moments of his 90-minute.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We can confirm that Emerson Royal suffered a meniscus injury to his left knee while on international duty with Brazil last week.<\/p>\n<p>The defender will undergo surgery before beginning his rehabilitation with our medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>We're all behind you, Royal \ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SaZV3uuyge\">pic.twitter.com\/SaZV3uuyge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/1640647668681588736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"cacd14af-f45b-4dc3-92a0-f22155dd4b2f\" data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">The 24-year-old has had a successful season at Tottenham, bouncing back from criticism over his performance to play some of his best football for the club. In 32 appearances this season, Emerson has scored two goals. As a result, he was recalled to the Brazilian team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"pb-2\" data-private=\"redact\" data-wt-guid=\"84124815-5e87-4058-88c8-3320e4f0fb47\">In addition to Emerson, Tottenham has several other injured players, some of whom are close to returning and others who will be out for some time. Richarlison and Hugo Lloris are expected to return soon. Bissouma and Ben Davies are still recovering. They may return before the end of the season. Rodrigo Bentancur and Emerson Royal suffer from severe knee injuries and may be unable to return before 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The return of Emerson Royal from injury remains unclear. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":34662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1750,2645,3217],"class_list":["post-12278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-daniel-levy","tag-emerson-royal","tag-tottenham-spurs"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}