{"id":382057,"date":"2011-04-19T14:54:55","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/19\/gordon-injury-blow-for-sunderland\/"},"modified":"2011-04-19T14:54:55","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T14:54:55","slug":"gordon-injury-blow-for-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/19\/gordon-injury-blow-for-sunderland\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon injury blow for Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"73.5838243171\"><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ba949a2b2505_gordon.jpg.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" alt=\"Craig Gordon\" \/> Gordon is set to miss the start of the season for the second year running<\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon could miss the start of next season after undergoing knee surgery in Sweden on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon, 28, is expected to be out for up to six months after the procedure, which was carried out by knee specialist Professor Hakan Alfredson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were left with no choice but to go ahead with the surgery,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safc.com\/news\/20110419\/gordon-goes-under-the-knife_2256213_2342150\">boss Steve Bruce told the club website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Craig had the operation yesterday and it went well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon is likely to miss Scotland&#8217;s Euro 2012 qualifiers against the Czech Republic on 3 September and Lithuania three days later.<\/p>\n<p>Scotland then travel to Liechtenstein on 8 October and Spain on 11 October.<\/p>\n<p>The news about Gordon provided a double blow for national coach Craig Levein, with midfielder Graham Dorrans now likely to be out of action for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Dorrans has not played since February following an ankle injury suffered in training with his club, West Brom.<\/p>\n<p>And Baggies assistant manager Michael Appleton admitted on Tuesday that time is running out for Dorrans to be sufficiently match fit to return during the current campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It means that he could join Gordon in missing Scotland&#8217;s Carling Nations Cup matches against Wales and Northern Ireland in May, while the goalkeeper is almost certain to miss Denmark&#8217;s visit to Hampden for a 10 August friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Before picking up the knee injury, Gordon&#8217;s season had been disrupted by both a broken arm and the form of understudy Simon Mignolet &#8211; delaying his first start until November&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/9163105.stm\">1-1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then the Scotland international has made only 15 appearances, the last coming in <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/eng_prem\/9392691.stm\">February&#8217;s corresponding fixture with Spurs,<\/a> that the Black Cats lost 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Former boss Roy Keane <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/football\/teams\/s\/sunderland\/6932931.stm\">signed Gordon<\/a> for a then club record fee of \u00a39m from Heart of Midlothian in August 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ba949a2b2505_gordon.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/sport1\/hi\/football\/13130614.stm\" title=\"Gordon injury blow for Sunderland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gordon injury blow for Sunderland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Gordon is set to miss the start of the season for the second year running Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon could miss the start of next season after undergoing knee surgery in Sweden on Monday. Gordon, 28, is expected to be out for up to six months after the procedure, which was carried out by knee specialist Professor Hakan Alfredson. &#8220;We were left with no choice but to go ahead with the surgery,&#8221; boss Steve Bruce told the club website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382057","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gordon injury blow for Sunderland - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/19\/gordon-injury-blow-for-sunderland\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gordon injury blow for Sunderland - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Gordon is set to miss the start of the season for the second year running Sunderland goalkeeper Craig Gordon could miss the start of next season after undergoing knee surgery in Sweden on Monday. 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